Air France Crash : 11 Bodies Identified
BRASILIA, June 21 (Xinhua) — Brazilian authorities said on Sunday that 11 bodies have been identified from the 50 retrieved from the Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1st.
In a statement issued by a task force made up of Brazil’s federal police and the Public Safety Department of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, ten bodies were identified as Brazilian, including five men and five women and another body as a foreign male.
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Collections Cathy Pill
Born in Belgium, Brussels based Cathy Pill completed her studies at l’E.N.S.A.V. de La Cambre and has worked for A.F. Vandervors and Vivienne Westwood.
After winning a slew of awards, including in 2003 the Collection of the Year contest It’s-Two in Trieste, in 2005 two awards of the Foundation Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint-Laurent and the fashion house Yves Saint – Laurent Andam contests in France, the price in Italy Fabio Inghirami and the Prix Modo Bruxellae Belgium, Cathy Pill launched her first collection of ready-to-wear during the Fashion Week in Paris in October 2005.
Now aged 27, recently married and with her first baby on the way, Cathy already has everything lined up for spring. She gets a jump on the season by showing her ready-to-wear ahead of her peers during Paris Couture week and what she’s up to is getting better by the season.
She belongs (in spirit, if not geographically) to the cohort of young modernist print talents that has been on the rise in Europe, like Josh Goot and Peter Pilotto.
Pill also has a mathematical brain that approaches the draping of a dress like a geometry problem. She aims to have dresses that are as easy as T-shirts to put on and says “I’ve gone through everything, thinking what I want to wear.”
Collections Cathy Pill is distinguished by the clever use of printed fabrics and shapes, to create modern feminine silhouettes.
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La Politesse – Etiquette
The French have some very formal rules about manners and etiquette (la politesse) and there are many, well written, books on the subject. Here are a few ways to avoid embarrassment and not become too surprised.
Meeting people
The French shake hands almost whenever they meet and always when meeting someone for the first time or for business. Arriving at work it is quite common to greet colleagues with a handshake, and to shake hands again when leaving. I once had some luggage stolen whilst traveling on the TGV to Paris. Having arrived, I was asked to wait in the Police office whilst a report was written. There were several other people in the room and I watched in pleasant surprise as an officer, coming on duty, went around shaking everyone by the hand (including me) and wishing a polite “bonjour”.
Photo: Gregory Bastein
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