What's Hot and What's Not?

Exercises

1. Trends

Read the article She's a Material Girl - by Tim Larimer from Time Asia, Young Japan.

Also find out about the Kawaii culture in Japan

Have a look at the article about youth in china Young and restless  

• What is a trend?
• How is a trend born, and how is it spread?
• Make a list of different trends from your country or area?
• What is the trend right now?

2. The world's most beautiful Misses

See pictures from the contests Miss World and Miss Universe

See a list of Miss Universe winners since 1953: http://www.pageantcenter.com/missuniverse.html

• How many times has the Miss Universe contest been won by a contestant from Asia? Note country and year
• How many Asian countries were among the Top 10 in Miss World 2002? Which countries?
• How many Asian countries were among the Top 20 in Miss World 2002? Which countries?

3. Traditional clothes

• What kind of traditional clothes from Asia do you know? - Make a list
• Do you yourself own clothes that are inspired by Asian tradition?
• Which country in Asia is the spring and summer fashion inspired by?

Find information about the panung at: http://www.asia-fashion.de/panung/index.html

• Make your own panung. First you need a sheet of cloth. It should be around as wide as your legs are long and around 4-5 times as long as wide
• In your class or group, help dress one of your classmates into the panung (follow the instructions on the drawings)