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	MAY DAY

	Late one night, I was jolted from my bed by an urgent pounding on my door. I raced to it just to face… a firefighter, dressed in full protective gear and veiled by haze filling the hallway. Suddenly, I was very much awake. He wasted no words in delivering his warning: “Lady, there’s a fire. I need y...

	Matěj Ruppert..What if Bond? Well-tempered as a rule, Matěj Ruppert drives a canary-yellow speedy, loves his band and claims there had been nothing else in his life. He’s never contemplated a solo career despite having been twice awarded “Singer of the Year” in the Czech Republic recently. He admitted to be a rather unpractical...

	The Price of Life Has it ever come to your attention when confronting yourself in the mirror if any vulnerable animal had been killed for the sake of your beauty or for the contents of your wardrobe? As well as the climate changes, the animal rights issue should concern each and every one of us. We have had the possi...

	Full-Figured Lives Claudia Cardinale. Gina Lollobrigida. Sophia Loren. All three of these women were Italian by birth, made beautiful by nature and are living legends in their own time. If any one of them rose to fame with today’s standard of beauty measured while standing on a scale, we may not have ever known them....

	Smashin’ Good Looks For days when full-on foundation, blush and eye shadow are a bit much, don’t hesitate coating your luscious lashes with one stroke of Bionic – Smashbox Cosmetic’s latest in revolutionary make-up. One sweep with the specially engineered, clump-free brush is all it will take to leave you with lashes r...

	Photoeditorial, FRAME

	What’s New New Laufen bathroom fittings were developed in collaboration with Alessi and the renowned Dutch architect Wiel Arets. The luxurious collection Dot consists of 72 accessories inspired by Japanese culture and it breaks the myth of a bathroom necessarily separated from living area. Nike launched a ...

	John Galliano, Gods Must Be Crazy A crank cursed by some, and a genius adored by others... Probably no other designer ever arose so many controversial emotions. Born Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano Guillén in November 1960 in the British colony of Gibraltar, his parents soon moved to London, where he later attended one of the most pres...

	Miss Hawaiian Tropic Part II

	Miss Hawaiian Tropic Pageant On 15 April 2008 Faiyo Magazines was proud to have brought the First Annual International Miss Hawaiian Tropic Pageant for the Czech and Slovak Republics to Prague. This international competition boasts worldwide popularity and is in its monumental 25th year! Faiyo is honored to be the first and onl...

	Last Exit? As winter dissolves into spring and outdoor seating spreads over pavements, plans are made for the summer festival season. One of the best festivals is that held in a 17th-century fortress on the banks of the Danube. Serbia’s “Exit Fest” won 2007’s UK Festival Awards Yourope Best European Festival g...

	Sensual Dining French designer Philippe Di Méo introduced his new collection dedicated to erotic tableware and entitled “Souper Fin”. His collaboration with famed designers’ personalities, companies and manufacturers resulted in a set of objects that certainly won’t leave any gourmet indifferent. Baccarat, Christo...

	Hooray Apocalypse! The catastrophic genre in film is just as old as film in its own right. The main theme usually is a threatening or ongoing catastrophe such as a volcano eruption, earthquake, attack of grasshoppers, or an object colliding with the Earth. The cast and sub-stories are, per custom, beyond number. Durin...

	SOS ACQUA! There are cities proud of many memorable fountains and there are others that suffer from the disastrous lack of those. The eternal Rome ranks amongst the first. Not even native Romans remember every single fountain, but one – di Trevi – received global renown. Situating it on the join of three strea...

	Watch out for Divas! For their glares may be uncompromising. Here, a sweet girl turns into a delicate, misty terminator. Since snapshots were quite impossible in early 20th-century fashion photography, artists had to seize models by transforming them into motionless statues. The eerie beings captured by Edward Steichen ...

	Austria on the Bite The orderly country of, say, Freud turned into a hot spot due to the Amstetten scandal. It’s all like a mix of Kusturica’s “Underground” and Elfride Jelinek’s novels. In August 1984, Josef F. (73) locked up his 11-year-old daughter Elisabeth into a dungeon in his own house – according to his last co...

	Go Fish Already being called a cultural icon, the soon to be re-opened Steinhart aquarium in San Francisco is housed within a building city with “living” roof, a planetarium, and a natural history museum. Ten years in the making, this project infuses sustainability into its construction and maintenance by r...

	WAKEBOARDING If you want to join a snowboard ride with sliding on the water surface, you like motorboats and you are looking for an activity similar to windsurfing then you should try wakeboarding! The basis of this adrenalin sport is a short, quite wide board and a motorboat or cable skiing. Luckily you can do ...

	Little Blue ZR1 Those who know her closely call her “vette”. A better ride in the US style is hard to get. Corvette ZR1 is simply the fastest car of one of the largest automobile factories of the world – GM. The Yank recipe for a sports car demands the strongest engine under the sun. Under the long, wavy hood you ca...

	Sheet Anchor The Victorinox label has become synonymous for a small pocket knife decorated with a cross in a shield on a red background. Its products range from modern variations of simple pocket knives to monsters where one is surprised by what can actually fit into a pocket knife. But Victorinox – the only aut...

	Bon Voyage! Some have the gift to find their way immediately, some can’t do without a map even on the way to their parents and some won’t find the way even when having one. Luckily we’ve got the magic GPS. The Global Positioning System is nothing new. The American satellite network has been serving the army...

	Venice of the North For your trip to Stockholm you should remember the Swedish proverb: There is no bad weather only bad clothing. The weather changes unpredictably and amazing views over the water surface bring in cold wind. The water covers a third of the city and it is so clear that at times you can see a salmon swi...

	Continuous Shock The Earth’s climate has never been stable and humid years, catastrophic draughts and floods have always been alternating. Especially rains have been bringing hunger and famine – crops went rotten with the humidity and the rest was destroyed by pests. Floods forced already the medieval villagers ...

	Dreaming in the Rainforest The Gamboa Rainforest Resort belongs to the true diamonds between world hotels. It could not be situated better – right in the middle of the Panama Canal and Soberania National Park you can experience unforgettable sights on the rainforest only 30 kilometers from the capital. This luxurious hote...

	Mother Water Nobody can survive without water – it is a large part of everything alive around us. A thin blue layer of water covers the vast majority of the Earth’s surface, it evaporates, freezes and then all over again. Even the most beautiful of us are almost all water. The human body consists of 70 % of wate...

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	In the Torture Garden The party called “Torture Garden” takes place in London every month and is aimed towards people who desire to celebrate their diversity. It is being organized since 1990. Contemporary London seems to be the perfect place for meetings like this, since nothing is shocking there any more. People come h...