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The days of It-bags are long gone, their demise coinciding broadly with the rise of George Osborne and the death of hope. <br></font></p><p> </p><p> <font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The idea of spending north of a grand on a couple of flaps of leather and a shiny brass buckle is not only utterly ludicrous and impossible, it’s oddly anachronistic too,ray ban 3025, the kind of thing Kim Kardashian would do (rule of thumb: if Kim does it, best not to).</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;"> These days, we’re supposed to be beyond all that. Sober and sensible and…sorry. Did you drop off? Wake up! I’m talking about HANDBAGS!</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Just recently, you see,ray ban,Gavin and Vassell to put unbeaten records on the line in unification showdown, I encountered the laser-cut tote by Azzedine Ala?a,cheap ghd, in antique rose leather,Bungling thief targets four-star hotel filled with, the soft blooming colourof a baby’s cheeks. This is the kind of bag that sits on the shelf and whispers your name. Or perhaps it purrs.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;"> It’s big enough to carry your shopping, but rather incapable of doing so, as it is perforated like a doily. So it’s completely silly, a bag full of holes, a bag that ought to be carried around in a sedan chair, a bag of flimsy dreams which you could ruin simply by taking it to the shops. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">But it is so pretty that, no matter how you look at it (and heaven knows, I have),ray ban aviators, it has the capacity to transport. </font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">If I’ve learnt anything from a career in fashion, at its roaring heart and more lately on its periphery, it’s that we humans respond to beauty. Just lately, that instinctive response turned into a brute craving – see something, want it, must have it,ghd sale, buy it. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">But I sense a change in the air. Tougher times mean that we’re back to the days of looking not touching, admiring not owning. I quite like it. I feel about the Ala?a tote as I might about a painting in a gallery. <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">When I was in Florence recently, I spent a good 20 minutes looking at Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Annunciation. I just wanted to look. Of course,ray ban sunglasses, it didn’t cross my mind to want to own it. In those appreciative,Travel deals The best websites for...finding holiday deals Mail Online, ruminative moments, I saw a world in those brushstrokes, and basked in the mastery of perspective and colour and form. As I walked away, it was with a buzz of true happiness.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Consumerism and the compulsion of ownership came to define our age,cheap ghd, and it served to strip these quiet moments of reverie out of the equation. Very often,ghd straighteners, beautiful things, once carted home in their divine tissue wrap, had lost their magic, leached of the vitality that drew us to them in the first place.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;"> Perhaps now we can revert to enjoying a momentary pleasure, a pocket of beauty, without seeking to bag it, tag it and drag it home to our private lairs (in my case, a very full wardrobe which could barely handle another sock, let alone another handbag).</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">I’ve always known that this is the enduring power of fashion: not the trends that come and go, not the must-haves and the shopping sprees. But pure beauty. We haven’t had much time to notice beauty of late. 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| + | <div id="js-article-text" class="article-text wide"><h1>Silver reward for 'normal' Lancashire lass Murray in modern pentathlon,cheap ghd straighteners</h1><p> By </p><p><span class="article-timestamp"><strong>PUBLISHED:</strong>17:17 GMT, 12 August 2012</span> <span class="article-timestamp"><strong>UPDATED:</strong>20:38 GMT, 12 August 2012</span></p><br><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">London 2012 was nearly two days old when Great Britain celebrated their first medal, but such has been this country’s success at these Games, even at 6.30pm on the final day there was still a British athlete taking her place on the podium.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">Samantha Murray fenced, swam, rode, shot and ran her way to Britain’s 65th medal at London 2012 as the 22-year-old from Clitheroe,ghd hair straighteners, Lancashire won silver in the modern pentathlon on Sunday night.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">‘Honestly, if you have a goal — if there’s anything you want to achieve in life — don’t let anybody get in your way,’ she said. ‘You can do it. If I can do it, and I’m a normal girl, anyone can.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I’m a Lancashire lass — and very proud of it. We’ll have a big party at the end of the summer with some Lancashire hotpot, for sure.’ <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now the girl nicknamed Olive —,ray ban sunglasses; because of her supposed likeness to the character from Popeye — is an Olympic silver medallist; something that looked unlikely at 11am on Sunday afterMurray lost 18 of her 35 fencing bouts inside the Copper Box on the Olympic Park.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Her swim,ghd sale, though, gave a definite hintof what was to come as she covered four lengths of the Olympic pool in 2min 20.08sec, finishing just an arm’s length behind Sarolta Kovacs of Hungary, who set an Olympic modern pentathlon record.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;"> It was Murray’s first time in the water at the Aquatics Centre and she was actually disappointed with her performance, but it put her into third overall.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">The Briton then lost a little ground during the show-jumping at Greenwich Park,ghd sale, in which competitors are randomly allocated horses and have only 20 minutes to familiarise themselves with their rides. Murray, on a year-old chestnut gelding called Glen Gold,Mulberry sale,Picture This THE HIDDEN LIFE OF WOLVES BY JIM AND JAMIE DUTCHER Mail Online, knocked down two of the 12 fences and conceded a time penalty, but she still entered the combined run and shoot in fourth place, starting eight seconds behind the leader.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">She was then into third after shootingfive targets twice with a laser gun and starting the second 1,cheap ghd,000m lap,Cash-strapped hospital bosses employ American IT expert on a salary of £25,000 A MONTH...and even picked up his bar tab and his laundry bill Mail On,before quickly moving ahead of Yane Marques of Brazil,ray ban wayfarer, who finished third.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania won the gold medal, but it was a gutsy run from Murray,Meet the Kooteninchela deppi an ancient lobster-like beast with scissor claws th, who has a year left of a degree in French and politics at the University of Bath, almost as passionate as her defence of a sport that is under threat to be withdrawn from the Olympic programme after 100 years. She found modern pentathlon through swimming, then ‘fell in love’ with running.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">‘I already horse-rode because my grandma had stables,’ she added. ‘Luckily for me there was some shootinggoing on by my swimming pool so I picked up a pistol when I was 12,ray ban sale, then went along to fencing at 13.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘,Mulberry sale;It’s the ultimate sport for an all-round athlete and I think it’s an important part of the Olympic Games.’ <br></font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">World champion Mhairi Spence finished a disappointing 21st in anevent in which Britain has a proud heritage, having now won five medalsin the four Olympics women have competed.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">‘I don’t feel like a world champion,’ said Spence, ‘I feel a bit embarrassed that I couldn’t put on a better show.’</font></p><p><br></p><p> </p> </div> | ||
