For the Paris Olympics, it could almost be a new sport: score points by hunting down mosaics that a mystery artist who calls himself “Invader” has cemented to walls across France’s capital, the world – including Hong Kong – and even had carried aloft to the International Space Station.
Vincent Giraud, one of the artist’s Parisian fans, is already an avid player. He downloaded Invader’s addictive FlashInvaders mobile-phone game that awards points to users who find and photograph the colourful and quirky pieces of pixellated art. Read More...
Embracing an eclectic, futurist and often fantastical style, which has become Ghesquière’s signature, the looks delved into aquatic folklore to create fairy-tale figures with modern appeal. Each character transformed as the collection transitioned from familiar to exceptional, from ordinary to extraordinary.
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Aquatic materials like neoprene were tailored into winged wetsuits or patterned like seaweed. Skirts were covered in sequinned ornaments that resembled scales, while water droplet embellishments joined embroidered shells. Read More...
It all marks a sea change for Australia’s international education industry, which is now worth some A$36 billion (US$23.6 billion) and is proving increasingly difficult for Canberra to oversee as students, education providers and migrant agents alike find fertile ground for manipulation and fraud.
International education is now Australia’s fourth-largest export after coal, iron ore and natural gas, providing a major source of income for the country’s universities and colleges. Read More...
