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The fashion and accessories at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin

This season, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin debuted with a completely revamped, fresh, new idea, showcasing extraordinarily brilliant designers—both established names and up-and-comers—with eye-catching outfits inside the recently rebuilt Telegraphenamt facilities right in the center of Berlin. I’d like to concentrate on just a few of the new collections that are particularly deserving among the astounding abundance of well-known brands alongside up-and-coming ones.

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A bridge of cultures

Writing from Ukraine that focuses on the current wars According to Dralyuk, Lyuba Yakimchuk is one of the country’s most important modern poets – “was a refugee from Donbas, from the war zone, and she has written very movingly about that experience”. Her 2016 poem Crow, Wheels highlights the apparent never-ending escalation of conflict: “When the city was destroyed, / they started fighting over the cemetery.”

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Life and Fate – The Soviet novel ‘too dangerous to read’

For the second installment of BBC Culture’s Banned Books series, Nicholas Barrett writes that Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate painted an image of the Soviet Union during World War II that highlighted “the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within”.

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The Best Pop Songs in 2022

After spending nearly two years in a “out-of-studio vortex,” most artists were unable to record properly in 2020 and the majority of 2021; 2022 is expected to be a year of new music’s “coming out.” This year, music has returned to its fuller form, introducing the public to some earworms (and candy) within pop, from Harry Styles’ long-awaited pulses around Harry’s House to Lizzo’s more assertive singing of I’m not the girl I was or used to be on the hit “About Damn Time” to Doja Cat’s tribute to Big Mama Thornton on her Elvis...

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