For the first time in its history, the French capital's Louvre Museum opened up its storied arcades on Tuesday to fashion: a catwalk show by the Italian house Salvatore Ferragamo.
Proof enough of the unique setting of the midseason resort collection lay with the celebrity-filled front row - from Freida Pinto to Leighton Meester to Hilary Swank.
The Florence-based house was granted unprecedented access to an impressive 120 metres of the Denon Wing arcade of the building, thanks to its sponsorship of the Louvre's current exhibition of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, Leonardo da Vinci's last painting.
The Louvre is also respectfully tipping its hat to Florence: a city which - like Paris - has been a pole of creativity across the centuries.
But how can Ferragamo - a house that prides itself on being Made in Italy - convincingly show in Paris's most famous museum?
The key was moulding the show to the environment, said the creative director Massimiliano Giornetti, adding that he aimed to integrate French fashion techniques in his work along with the Louvre's aesthetic. "The clothes' light-coloured palette is on purpose and in tune with the Louvre's light coloured stone," he said. * AP
The biog
Simon Nadim has completed 7,000 dives.
The hardest dive in the UAE is the German U-boat 110m down off the Fujairah coast.
As a child, he loved the documentaries of Jacques Cousteau
He also led a team that discovered the long-lost portion of the Ines oil tanker.
If you are interested in diving, he runs the XR Hub Dive Centre in Fujairah
Fitness problems in men's tennis
Andy Murray - hip
Novak Djokovic - elbow
Roger Federer - back
Stan Wawrinka - knee
Kei Nishikori - wrist
Marin Cilic - adductor
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At a glance
- 20,000 new jobs for Emiratis over three years
- Dh300 million set aside to train 18,000 jobseekers in new skills
- Managerial jobs in government restricted to Emiratis
- Emiratis to get priority for 160 types of job in private sector
- Portion of VAT revenues will fund more graduate programmes
- 8,000 Emirati graduates to do 6-12 month replacements in public or private sector on a Dh10,000 monthly wage - 40 per cent of which will be paid by government
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- Cancer is the second-leading cause of death worldwide, after cardiovascular diseases
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