Victoria's secret articles
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‘It’s what I always dreamed of’: Mango deal takes Victoria Beckham’s designs to high street
Collections by ex-Spice Girl had been too dear for most but deal with affordable chain forecast to help tip VB business into profitWhen Victoria Beckham debuted her first collection of just 10 dresses in a luxury hotel suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in 2008, she told the sceptical assembly of the world’s most powerful fashion editors that she had “spent a lifetime wanting to do this”.“It’s what I always dreamed of since I customised my school uniform when I was 7 years old,” she said....
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Victoria Beckham and Heidi Klum’s daughters are stealing their mum’s famous frocks, but who wore it best?
RAIDING your mum’s wardrobe is a cardinal fashion sin for some – but maybe not if your mother is rich and famous. Catherine Zeta-Jones’s daughter Carys Douglas looked the spit of her mum in a dress
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Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panelsUnder the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the semi-arid landscape. Pavagada, 100 miles north of Bengaluru in southern India, is the world’s third-largest solar power plant, with 25m panels across a huge 50 sq km site, and a capacity of 2,050MW of clean energy.India has 11 similarly vast solar...