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I’m thinking maybe it’s something to do with separating the human body from its inherent sexuality by completely altering the context? If I had to guess. Most art is as much as surprise to the creator, I think, as it is to the viewer.

Fashion shows are being organized from time to time by various organizations in different parts of the world. In these fashion shows, models used to wear various types of fashionable cloths and walk through the ramp, to demonstrate these cloths to the fashion lovers over there. By and large, the changing fashion trends demonstrated through these events are also peculiar to women. Almost 90% of the fashion events and fashion shows are aimed at introducing new types of women clothing, designed by various fashion designers. The fashion events for men are almost none in relation to women.

The most well known fashion events organized in various parts of the world time and again include London Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Lakme Fashion Week, Singapore Fashion Festival and so on. In all these and many other such events, women play a vital role. Besides fashion events, there are a lot of magazines, television channels, websites and other media for promoting fashion. Whatever, the presence of women is indispensable for the existence of fashion industry and fashion events.

Besides women fashion clothing, other women fashion accessories include costume jewelry, women’s footwear, fashion bags, ladies leather wallets; to name a few. Fashion and women are more or less complementary to each other. Fashion prospers due to women, and women in turn are served by fashion.

Managing across cultures is not an easy task and it has been a challenge for the offshoring companies to  manage across different geographic boundaries and with multi-cultural teams. A culture in itself is defined as a group or community which shares common beliefs and values. A cultural group is understood by the manner in which it behaves. A person can adjust to different cultures at the same time exhibiting different characteristics depending on the birthplace, family background, language, education, religion, profession etc.

 Understanding and managing multi-cultural teams is important to let the organization achieve results and success. Unless every individual in a team with different cultures adapts to a particular organizational environment, the organization cannot move in the right direction and attain profits.

It is culture which presents various challenges, one of them being the barriers to communication. When companies outsource human resources, one of the criteria it looks for is a cultural fit. Often candidates who  are capable of topmost positions are often eliminated on the ground of cultural mismatch as they are unable to justify themselves to be adaptable to a different set of cultural attributes. Few examples make this understanding of culture much more clearer. There are individuals who are understood to be wrong or aggressive when they make eye-contact for a longer time during the process of conversation while Americans find individuals untrustworthy who do not make proper eye-contact with the other person. Then, there are Japanese who bend their head whenever they greet the other person which otherwise is thought be too cordial by individuals of other countries.

If an individual is not able to accomodate himself with the other culture, then he may go into a cultural shock the signs of which are high level of anxiety, isolation and also lack of performance on the job. So, it becomes necessary to manage across the multi-cultural teams not only  to show good performance on the job but also to stay cool, calm and stress-free. In this regard, many IT companies have come out successful as the IT workers worked their way up to breaking the cultural barriers and rising above cultural attributes such as language etc.

A manager of an organization often faces problems dealing an overseas client. Many countries may not have open-form of communication and direct communication while many may have it. A manager may also have trouble understanding the accent and fluency of the other person.

Since, no single-step approach can work towards synergizing multicultural teams, It industry or any other industry per se should adopt the following techniques:     

Acclimatize to the different set of culture: Nothing is better than adjusting to the different cultural climate. You need to accept the opinion of others gladly. This does not mean that you should hamper your work. You should be able to influence the other person too towards one’s own opinion. You need to understand the language, working style, religion and many more things need to be understood and taken up in order to get the work done.  Intervene by structurally changing the team: Now, the structural intervention requires changing the shape of the team. This includes picking up individuals from different teams and assigning them a task to complete. Create an amicable environment: Here, it becomes the profound duty of the manager to create a friendly environment between different individuals having different culture in a group. It all depends upon how one interacts and communicates with the other person having different language, origin etc. Resolve conflicts arising out of cultural differences: If at all conflict arises due to language or accent difference, a manager should try to get the messy situation patched up. Gain insight into the other culture: This requires an ample of hard work and this will also take time to learn about the other culture, language. Often this will require you to gain knowledge of the living and working style.  

Besides the above tips to managing multi-cultural teams, one should maintain that when two or more teams come across, they all need to equally work hard in order to work together.       

The Internet has become the number one information source Worldwide, and the same may be said about its FTA (free-to-air) television entertainment someday. During 2008, NFL officials made an announcement that they will be streaming Sunday-Night NFL Football games to the Internet. As a result, this gave existing Internet sports channels a tremendous steroid boost. As it looks, this kind of free media is breaking new grounds and causing more people across the globe to take notice. As for now, sports enthusiasts can get access to any and all Worldwide Internet sporting events to their computers either for a fee or for free.

Whether or not your current sports channels are totally depleted, the goal is to enhance more sports channels for TV viewing. There are more Worldwide sporting events available daily for viewing than any paid-TV. Best of all, more channels are constantly being added making ones sports experience quite a satisfying one. Anyone, from all walks of life, and who speaks a different language can have access to this awesome global sports arena.

Now the decision boils done to knowing how to harness the power of the Internet to watch sports online via computer, as well as knowing where. For the already experienced Internet sports fan, s/he with time to spare can scour the Internet for sports websites and channels. This person is considered a do-it-yourselfer who knows or have some idea where to begin.

Consequently if a newbie wanted to save lots of time while lowering the curving and eliminate paying monthly fees, downloading/installing a watch sports online software could be the answer. In a nutshell, this software streamlines your access to 1000s of free Internet TV/Radio/Music/VOD media for a small one-time fee. All the work is done which saves tremendous time if trying to find free sports channels on your own. In essence, all of the free Internet sports channels is delivered right to your computer for instant access.

What else do you get when using a watch sports online software? You get a service that comes as a package and offers a lifetime membership with free software upgrades, channel updates, and tech support. A top sports software can be downloaded to any Windows or Vista desktop/laptop computer with an Internet broadband connection. And there exist software and non-software packages for both MAC and Linux users as well.

Users get safe, legal, and risk-free access when watching NFL/International football, soccer, hockey, baseball, golf, tennis, NBA/college basketball, NASCAR racing, wrestling, boxer, and so much more. This includes receiving access to premium, HDTV, and on-demand channels with good to excellent video quality. Whatever TV or sports issues at home is or when going away, a top watch sports online software eliminates these issues instantly. Download the software to a laptop using a laptop broadband card and watch sports from any location while at home or on the go.

If watching sports on a TV-set is preferred, then connect your computer Internet TV using a video connector–it’s that simple. There are a great number of benefits when using software to point and click your way to any sporting event imaginable. And watching a game in full screen while at work, on a vacation/trip, or when living in a college dorm, says a lot about how flexible a top watch sports online software really can be. Two features that helps enhance this entertainment more are daily sports schedules and programming sports alerts. Both will eliminate the chance of you missing a big game, even if there is a local blackout.

Find fashion schools offering online fashion merchandising, fashion design, fashion marketing, and other programs that can help you develop the skills you need to get your foot in the door of this stylish career. Find schools in top fashion destinations like New York City, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, across the US and beyond.

The field of fashion and fashion marketing is a demanding yet rewarding path. Are you ready to combine your creative talents and marketing savvy into an exciting career? Some career paths include: Fashion Buyer, Product Developer & Retail Manager. You will work closely with account executives and store managers to select appropriate merchandise to sell in stores. You are knowledgeable about current and future trends and travel to national and international fashion markets to study them.

Following schools offer online fashion courses and degrees

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX ONLINE

• Fashion Design/Marketing

BAKER COLLEGE ONLINE

• Bachelor Degree in Web Development

• Certificate in Web Design

THE ART INSTITUTE ONLINE

• Residential Planning – Diploma

• Digital Design – Diploma

• Web Design – Diploma

• Graphic Design – Associate Degree

• Multimedia & Web Design – Associate Degree

• Advertising – Bachelor Degree

• Culinary Management BS Degree Completion Program – Bachelor Degree

• Interior Design – Bachelor Degree

• Game Art & Design – Bachelor Degree

• Graphic Design – Bachelor Degree

• Multimedia & Web Design – Bachelor Degree

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY

• Graphics and Multimedia

• Web Application Development

AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY ONLINE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communications

WESTWOOD COLLEGE ONLINE

• Graphic Design and Multimedia

• Visual Communications

• Animation

• Web Design & Multimedia

• CAD Courses

American InterContinental University

Fashion Design School

The fast-paced fashion industry is rich in career opportunities for individuals with an eye for color, line and texture, a keen business sense and a bold creative vision. AIU fashion school students are on the career track well before they graduate. They create a portfolio highlighting their best work for presentation to employers. Study tours to fashion centers like New York City, Paris and Milan are a great chance to network with the big names in the business. In addition, our students gain valuable experience as interns with designers, manufacturers and fashion houses.

The AIU Fashion Design School program helps new designers acquire the necessary skills to develop their personal style. Students also become familiar with the business and marketing side of the apparel industry.

Associate Degree in Fashion Design

Associate Degree in Interior Design

Associate Degree in Media Production

Associate Degree in Visual Communications

Bachelor’s Degree Fashion Design

Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design

Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design & Fashion Marketing

Bachelor’s Degree in Media Production

Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communications

Request Information – Atlanta (Buckhead), GA

International Academy of Design & Technology

Campus programs

The International Academy’s Program in Fashion Design is demanding, technical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art. Students are given a solid foundation in fashion illustration, pattern drafting, design, draping, clothing construction, textiles, fashion history and production techniques. All of the instruction is presented using industrial grade equipment in spacious and comfortable facilities built for optimum fashion design. Students are encouraged to realize their potential with inspiration provided by visiting designers and artisans with local and/or international reputations who conduct special lectures and workshops.

Associate of Science Degree in Web Design

Associate of Science degree in Computer Animation

Associate of Science Degree in Fashion Design and Marketing

Associate of Science Degree in Interior Design

Associate of Science Degree in Graphic Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Degree in Fashion Design and Marketing

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Interior Design

Brooks Fashion Design College

Associate degree in Fashion

The Fashion Design program at Brooks College provides academic and specialized practical instruction to prepare the student to enter an ever-changing and exciting world of fashion. In this growing industry, there is a constant demand for technical knowledge and creative talent. Brooks College’s Division of Manufacturing Education (D.O.M.E.) is the on-campus manufacturing facility where the major portion of the second year program is taught. Graduates of the program are qualified for the following: Designer and Assistant Designer, Fashion Stylist, Fashion Design School, Production, Pattern maker, Pattern Grader, Fabrications and trim Buyer, as well as, Fashion Illustrator and Textile Artist.

Associate of Science Degree (Graphic Design)

Associate of Arts Degree (Fashion Design)

Associate of Arts Degree (Interior Design)

Associate of Arts Degree (Fashion Merchandising)

Associate of Science Degree (Animation)

Associate of Science Degree (Multimedia)

Katharine Gibbs School New York (New York, NY)

Fashion Design School and Merchandising

Students are trained, practically and academically, in all aspects of the fashion industry. Topics include: fabric printing and print design, sketching for the designer and illustrator, industry-standard pattern drafting, showroom and retail sales, fashion design school. Through the course of the program, students will be developing their own fashion portfolio.

Associate Degree Visual Communications

Associate Degree – Fashion Design.

PCDI – Professional Career Development Institute

The Professional Fashion Merchandising Program

Have you ever wondered why certain clothes show up in fashion advertising and still others never sell? Would you like to be able to plan and produce a successful fashion show? Do you want to know how consumer fashion trends are set? Are you interested in getting in on a fast-track field by taking a fashion merchandising course? If so, you’ve come to the right place!

PCDI’s nationally accredited home study course will teach you about fashion merchandising, and much more. You’ll Receive 17 clear, beautifully illustrated lessons. First, we’ll teach you about consumer style preferences and purchasing habits. Next, we’ll take you “behind the scenes” to Find out what retail buyers, department heads, store managers, fashion directors, visual merchandisers, and sales associates do. Then, we’ll show you the secrets of staging fashion shows; planning special events; becoming a personal shopper; tracking fashion trends; and going for that first career position.

Key advantages of our school:

No campus attendance, no commuting, no deadline pressure

All exams are open-book/open notes

Learn at your own pace; graduate in as little as six months after taking the fashion merchandising courses!

Graduate with a nationally accredited diploma

Enroll any time and enjoy affordable, interest-free tuition

There are no educational prerequisites or experience requirements to enroll. Convenient, practical home study fashion merchandising courses and training from PCDI makes learning fashion merchandising easy and fun!

The Anioma culture over the time has become distinct and typical to the region, thus no ethnicity or group of people can justifiably lay claims to this culture because it is unique to the region. The uniqueness of this culture has ordinarily on its own tended to fend off arguments from quarters laying claims to the beautiful culture of this people. The Anioma culture they say speaks for itself. It has also beaten the imagination of several cultural observers on how speedily the culture and tradition of Anioma people have become homogenous in spite of the group not having common ancestral history as many historians mistakenly assume.

Although certain communities in this region can lay claim to Igbo ancestry as supported by oral history, many of these group have their histories obviously not linking them with Igbo home as their place of origin. It is for this reason that those ignorant on Anioma history fail to understand that in Anioma more than 12 languages exists in this region alone. The Agbor people who are of Ika ethnic group but agreed to join the union of Anioma with the rest of their neighbouring communities scattered around the region chiefly because all the towns and communities in this region have had a common history of relationship even many centuries before the arrival of the Europeans, and have shared common culture speak Ozzara and Ika.

The Ika people in their native language know and acknowledge this; only early Europeans and visitors to the region failed to understand this because they were particularly not interested in studying the social aspects of the people but greedily centered their interest on trade. The Ugbodu speak Olukumi (extinct form of Yoruba language,) Igbo and Igara. The Igara language is not typical to Ugbodu, else where in Evbu this language is also in use in addition to Igbo language. In Igbodo, Igbo and Ika is spoken by the people. Ika is a language similar to Bini. These languages strange to Igbo reflect in everyday usage in names of humans, articles, and chieftaincy titles shared with the Edos believed to be the ancestral home of many of these Anioma communities.  

It is therefore wonderful that in spite of difference in the histories of Anioma communities unique fusions hold the people together, though some would argue that the fact that these people have related socially and politically have been a major  factor responsible for this. Consider also that the Old Benin kingdom has also played a greater role in re-shaping and binding the region together with certain ideas and values typical to Edo.

If you have ever taken your time to watch Anioma people thrill you with any particular aspect of their culture you will surely be full of excitement. The Anioma kind of dance which requires so much energy to do is so unique that you cannot help but fall in love with the people, especially if you watch the Anioma lady traditionally appear in akwa-ocha, with white blouse and red beads, or even in just akwa-ocha tied around her waist up to her chest with her red beads and traditionally dressed her typical of Edo culture, you will indeed admire the Anioma people in their attractive traditional attire.

Several traditional kinds of dances are in existence in Anioma some of which are the Aguba Royal Dance, Uloko Dance, Egu Amala, Okanga, Egwu Osusu (Ukuani,) Egwu Oshushu (Enuani)  etc. Many of these dances are typical to the Anioma people, and the people of this region have come to master the art with ease over the time, adding fun to them. I would at this juncture advise many of our cultural organizations to find a way of making sure that our youths is trained in these our dances in order to continue to preserve them.

At the 2008 Anioma cultural fiestas put together by the enviable Organization for the Advancement of Anioma Culture held in Asaba Delta State, Otu One mind from Owa in Ika North East displayed a remarkable feat as the group emerged as the winner of the cultural show. The Uloko Cultural Group of Ndemili, Utagba-Uno in Ndokwa West Local Government had held the record of having won the even twice, in 2005 and 2006. The Otu Chukwuenyirinma of Agbor came second while Uloko Cultural Group of Ndemili, Utagba-Uno in Ndokwa came third.

Other Anioma cultural groups such as Otu Egwu Udo of Afor in Ndokwa East, Otu Egwu Aduko of Eweshi Onicha-Ukwuani in Ndokwa West, Aguba dance Band of Ubulu-Unor, Otu Chukwuedo Cultural Group of Owa-Oyibu In Ika North east, Otu Ita of Ogwashi-Uku in Aniocha south, Otu Egwu Onicha-Olona in Aniocha North have all proved to be force to reckon with in this fiesta. We wonder what happened to cultural groups from Ibusa often referred to as ‘the Congo of Africa”

Kudos should go to the organizers for believing in the distinct and uniqueness of Anioma culture, that not capable of being assimilated by any external ethnic group. One must not also fail to express much gratitude to Anioma Association USA Inc for striving and succeeding in also advancing the course of Anioma unequivocally demonstrating that the future of Anioma is not in doubt and that Anioma’s identity still lies with the group because we have not in any way lost our sight, we are relevant indeed. This is what the group tells us. I love this Anioma culture.