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The Irish Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Get the Farm Rio colourful, designer look, loved by celebs for over half the price this summer
If you want to inject a sprinkle of sunshine, a flurry of fun and a whole lot of carnival into your holiday wardrobe then Brazilian Label Farm Rio has it all. Banana prints dresses, Toucan T-shirts and red-hot chilly rompers all feature in their fun-in-the-sun designs. 5 Be inspired by A-list loved brand Farm Rio this summer Credit: Born out of a Brazilian market stall in 1997 by two friends, Kátia Barros and Marcello Bastos, Farm Rio's famous prints are a love letter to Rio's de Janeiro's vibrant sun-kissed style. Loved by the likes of Selena Gomez and Priyanka Chopra the brand has infiltrated the UK and most recently made its way into Selfridges. However, the designs do come with a price tag with dresses often retailing for hundreds of pounds. If you love the style, but don't have the budget then the high street is full of alternative options to give you the same look. Most read in Fashion So, whether you are heading to Copacabana Beach or just popping to Croydon for a coffee this summer the fashion team are here to show you how you can get the Farm Rio look for not as much buck. Tracey Lea Sayer, 53, Fashion Director 5 Get summer holiday ready like Tracey Credit: Shirt, £158, Reiss - Shorts, £130, Reiss - Bag, £79.99, Mango - Necklace, £25.99, Zara - Earrings, £17.99, Zara - Sunglasses, £55, Le Specs at Selfridges - Thong sandals, £99, Massimo Dutti - My obsession with Farm Rio knows no bounds but unfortunately my budget doesn't always stretch that far, not even on In the summer I always become obsessed with colours and prints. I start Most read in Fabulous Luckily the high street is all over this trend with prices to suit every budget. I have chosen this gorgeous mid-price range co-ord from Reiss. The lily and lemon print makes me think of soaking up the sunshine on a terrace, drinking a Emily, 25, Fashion Assistant 5 Take tips from Emily's home or way outfit Credit: Dress, £150, Forever New - Sandals, £36, River Island - Bangle, £35.50, Bijoux De Mimi - Bag, £59.99, Zara - Bag charm, £19.99, Parfois - I'm a big fan of summer dressing, and Farm Rio always gets it right, though their prices are a bit out of reach for me. Thankfully, the high street is full of budget-friendly, boho-inspired pieces that look just as good. This printed dress from Forever New is available in a midi and mini length and looks like it could be designer. The pattern is stunning and super detailed and I'm obsessed with the red bow straps. Plus it's super versatile, you could style it over a white baby tee with sandals for a daytime look or add gold wedges like I have for an evening on holiday. I finished the outfit with a stack of colourful bangles and a pearl bag from Zara. All of their pieces are fun, bright and just ooze holiday and hot weather style - what's not to love, aye? Clemmie Fieldsend, 34, Fashion Editor 5 Get inspired by holiday detailing with Clemmie's outfit Credit: Despite having a mostly neutral wardrobe, I do love Farm Rio. My personal style does tend to steer away from over the top, statement frocks but that doesn't mean I can't channel the brand. Punchy colour and tropical prints are at the heart of Farm Rio and this shorts and cardi combination embodies that. This cardigan from Never Fully Dressed, who have heaps of looks similar to Farm Rio, is more me. Holiday inspired detailing I can wear on cool summer evenings and I'm in love with this bright green shade. Topped off with a lot of texture, like this amazing bag from Reserved and shoes from Mango. Finish with gold jewellery and my go-to cat-eye sunglasses and get me to Rio. Cardigan, £100, Never Fully Dressed - Shorts, £45, Joules - Bag, £39.99, Reserved - Necklace, 46, Boden - Shoes, £59.99, Mango - Sunglasses, £15, Marks & Spencer - Abby McHale, 30, Deputy Fashion Editor 5 Embrace all things bright and bold with Abby's picks Credit: Dress, £62, River Island - Earrings, £15.99, Mango - Shoes, £49.99, Zara - Necklace, £14, Accessorise- Bag, £36, River Island - Summer is my favourite season to dress for and this kind of style just screams holiday. The colours, the prints, all the accessories, it's such a fun style to play around with. River Island is smashing its summer looks currently and its new range with Atlas is really hitting the spot. I'm obsessed with this asymmetric dress from the collection, the print is so vibrant and fun. Paired with some sun jewellery, a pair of bright heels and a raffia bag - now all I need to do is book another holiday. Why you should always buy a dupe over designer... Fashion Editor Clemmie Fieldsend says it's time fashion snobs stopped looking down their noses at affordable versions of designer buys. Bargain US supermarket Walmart became a social media sensation when its £60 dupe of Hermès' Birkin bag, dubbed the Wirkin, went viral. Influencer @styledbykristi gushed: "Eighty dollars (£60), you can pretend that you got a Birkin. I mean, everyone will probably know it's not, because who the hell has the money to spend on the real Birkin? Not me.' Me neither. And why bother? I would never spend that on a designer bag (although if someone wants to buy one for me, that's a different story). Plus, if I splashed that much, I'd feel I was being ripped off... We've all been told how the leading brands use the finest leather, thread, dyes and craftsmanship in the world. But all that is inflated by fashion houses to create the desired illusion of exclusivity. Just last year, Dior came under investigation for paying £44 to assemble a bag that sells for £2,000. So while you might think you are paying for top-level craftsmanship carried out by a true artisan, chances are the poorly paid workers are not seeing any of your hard-earned cash. Dupes — not to be mistaken for knock-offs that copy everything from the logo to the inside label — are a more practical and all-round sensible way to go. I bought my first when I was 18. It lasted me four years and only broke after I wore it in the shower. And these days, British high streets have plenty of dupes. In the past three years, Marks & Spencer, H&M and Mango have all seen huge spikes in sales thanks to their canny copies. They use the same viral, must-have marketing tactics that pricey brands have. Fashion folk will tell you that you are making an investment and buying a 'heritage piece' and will turn their noses up at a high street equivalent. But we've been wearing looks inspired by catwalk designers for decades. If we can buy a bag that's the spitting image of the pricier version, but doesn't mean you have to remortgage, why not?
San Francisco Chronicle
4 days ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Judge: Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos was unlawfully detained by ICE
A federal judge in Vermont on Wednesday released a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher from immigration custody as she deals with a criminal charge of smuggling frog embryos into the United States. Colleagues and academics also testified on Kseniia Petrova's behalf, saying she is doing valuable research to advance cures for cancer. 'It is excellent science,' Michael West, a scientist and entrepreneur in the biotech industry, testified on Petrova's research papers. He said he does not know Petrova, but has become acquainted with her published work, citing one in which she explains that 'by mapping embryonic development, novel ways of intervening in the biology of regeneration and aging.' West said that Petrova's medical research skills are highly sought after and that he himself would hire her 'in a heartbeat.' Petrova, 30, is currently in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service in Louisiana. She is expected to be brought to Massachusetts as early as Friday in preparation for a bail hearing next week on the smuggling charge, lawyers said in court. 'We are gratified that today's hearing gave us the opportunity to present clear and convincing evidence that Kseniia Petrova was not carrying anything dangerous or unlawful, and that customs officers at Logan International Airport had no legal authority to revoke her visa or detain her," Petrova's lawyer Gregory Romanovsky said in a statement. "At today's hearing, we demonstrated that Kseniia is neither a danger to the community nor a flight risk, and does not belong in immigration detention.' Petrova had been vacationing in France, where she stopped at a lab specializing in splicing superfine sections of frog embryos and obtained a package of samples to be used for research. As she passed through a U.S. Customs and Border Protection checkpoint in Boston Logan International Airport in February, Petrova was questioned about the samples. She told The Associated Press in an interview last month that she did not realize the items needed to be declared and was not trying to sneak anything into the country. After an interrogation, Petrova was told her visa was being canceled. After being detained by immigration officials, she filed a petition in Vermont seeking her release. She was briefly detained in Vermont before she was brought to Louisiana. Petrova was charged with smuggling earlier this month as U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss in Burlington set the hearing date on her petition. Reiss ruled Wednesday that the immigration officers' actions were unlawful, that Petrova didn't present a danger, and that the embryos were non-living, non-hazardous and 'posed a threat to no one.' Petrova's lawyer, Gregory Romanovsky, had asked Reiss to issue an order to stop the possibility of ICE re-detaining her if she is also released from detention in Massachusetts. Reiss said she was reluctant "to enjoin an executive agency from undertaking future actions which are uncertain' and would rely on U.S. Department of Justice attorney Jeffrey Hartman's comments that the government has no intention at this time to re-arrest Petrova. The Department of Homeland Security had said in a statement on the social media platform X that Petrova was detained after 'lying to federal officers about carrying substances into the country.' They allege that messages on her phone 'revealed she planned to smuggle the materials through customs without declaring them.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Judge Rips Government for Acting Illegally in Harvard Scientist Case
A Harvard University scientist detained by immigration authorities for over three months was granted bail by a federal judge Wednesday in a rebuke to the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss ruled that Kseniia Petrova's detention and the revocation of her J-1 visa for failing to declare frog embryos at Boston's Logan Airport in February should not have happened, and raised serious legal concerns. 'There does not seem to be either a factual or legal basis for the immigration officer's actions,' Reiss said in her ruling, adding that the samples Petrova brought into the U.S. were 'wholly non-hazardous, non-toxic, non-living, and posed a threat to no one.' 'Ms. Petrova's life and well-being are in peril if she is deported to Russia,' Reiss added, which the Trump administration has said it plans to do. Petrova has said that she fears returning to the country due to her protests against the war in Ukraine. Over three months ago, Petrova arrived back in the U.S. from a vacation in France with frog embryo samples, which she agreed to bring from a laboratory affiliated with her own at the request of her supervisor at Harvard Medical School. When her bags were inspected at the airport, a customs official immediately canceled her visa and began deportation proceedings. '[W]hat happened in this case was extraordinary and novel,' Reiss said. If she did not take action in Petrova's case, Reiss said that 'there will be no determination' if Petrova's constitutional rights were violated. Petrova was recruited from Russia in 2023 to work at Harvard's Kirschner Lab, studying the earliest stages of cell development as part of the lab's work to find ways to repair cell damage that leads to diseases such as cancer. She has admitted to failing to declare the embryo samples, and her lawyer says that this would normally be punished with a minor fine. Petrova still may not be released, as she also faces felony charges in Massachusetts for allegedly smuggling the embryos into the U.S., and is currently in federal custody in Louisiana. For now, though, Reiss's ruling is another rebuke to an administration that is trying to fast-track mass deportations of immigrants while ignoring the law.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova is granted bail but remains in custody on a smuggling charge
A federal judge on Wednesday granted bail to Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova, who has spent more than three months in custody after failing to declare frog embryos upon arriving in the United States. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss in Vermont said Petrova's continued detention by immigration authorities was unjustified and raised serious legal concerns about the government's actions. While the decision represents a significant development in the case, it will not result in her imminent release. The government has until Friday to propose terms of her release, according to the ruling. Petrova also faces a federal smuggling charge in Massachusetts, where she was stopped at Boston Logan International Airport on her way back from Paris. She remains in U.S. marshals' custody and cannot be freed unless the District of Massachusetts also authorizes her release in the criminal case. In granting Petrova's release from immigration detention, Reiss questioned whether immigration officers had the authority to revoke Petrova's visa over a customs issue and said Petrova had been held too long without court review. The judge found that Petrova posed no danger and that any flight risk could be managed with conditions proposed by the government. Petrova's attorney said he would update the court after hearing from the marshals, but no bail hearing date was discussed during Wednesday's proceeding. The Russian-born scientist was stopped at Logan airport in February with undeclared frog embryo samples. Her J-1 visa was revoked, triggering removal proceedings. She was later criminally charged and transferred from ICE to federal custody. Her attorneys argue the visa cancellation was unlawful. 'The Immigration and Nationality Act does not contain a provision that makes one inadmissible for committing a customs violation,' said Gregory Romanovsky, Petrova's attorney. He called the government's actions a product of "unlawful conduct by CBP' and said her repeated requests for parole were denied without proper justification. Reiss said Petrova could update her petition to reflect the new criminal charge and changes in her case. She expressed concern that the way the government handled Petrova's case may have left her without a fair chance to challenge what was happening to her. 'It was the government that revoked her visa,' Reiss said. 'And it's essentially saying, 'We revoked your visa, now you have no documentation, and now we're going to place you in removal proceedings.'' The court heard from multiple witnesses who talked about Petrova's scientific contributions and personal character. Dr. Michael West, a pioneer in regenerative medicine, testified that the frog samples were chemically treated, inert and nonhazardous. He said they posed 'no threat to anybody' and had 'no commercial value.' West told the court he had verified the preparation method with collaborators in France. Colleagues from Harvard described Petrova as kind, conscientious and devoted to her work. 'She is abundantly kind,' said Cora Anderson, a research assistant who worked closely with Petrova. Marc Kirschner, a professor who leads the lab where Petrova works, said she played a critical role in developing computational tools for microscopy. Government lawyers said that officials do not currently intend to rearrest Petrova if she is released from federal custody, and the judge said she would rely on them to hold themselves to that. Petrova's attorney warned that DHS may move quickly to re-detain her under an immigration hold. Reiss emphasized the need for judicial oversight. As the hearing concluded, Reiss said the case regarding her immigration detention would remain in Vermont. Both sides are expected to continue debating the legal questions surrounding her detention, even as the terms of her release are finalized and criminal proceedings unfold in Massachusetts. This article was originally published on
Straits Times
5 days ago
- Straits Times
US judge grants Russian-born Harvard scientist bail in immigration case
FILE PHOTO: Kseniia Petrova, 31, a Russian-born scientist and research associate at Harvard University, poses for a jail booking photograph at the Ouachita Correctional Center in Richwood, Louisiana, U.S. May 14, 2025. Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo A federal judge in Vermont on Wednesday ruled that the continued detention by immigration authorities of a Russian-born scientist at Harvard University was unjustified, removing a key hurdle to the researcher being released from U.S. custody more than three months after she was detained at an airport in Boston. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss said during a hearing in Burlington, Vermont that it appeared immigration authorities had detained Kseniia Petrova in February and canceled her visa without any factual or legal basis for doing so after discovering frog embryo samples in her luggage. "What happened in this case was extraordinary and novel," Reiss said. Reiss was not able to order Petrova's full release from government custody, as federal prosecutors in Boston earlier this month criminally charged her with illegally attempting to smuggle the frog embryo samples into the country. She is now being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, and a judge in her criminal case would need to decide whether to grant her bail as well when she goes before the court as soon as next week. But Reiss said bail in her related immigration case was appropriate as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has indicated that it intends to re-detain Petrova if a judge in her criminal case grants her bail. "At today's hearing, we demonstrated that Kseniia is neither a danger to the community nor a flight risk, and does not belong in immigration detention," her lawyer, Gregory Romanovsky, said in a statement. The Justice Department declined to comment. Petrova, 31, was detained at Logan International Airport in Boston on February 16 on her return from a trip to France. Petrova, who works at Harvard Medical School, has said her boss asked her to bring back frog embryo samples for ongoing experiments. Petrova's detention comes amid efforts by Republican President Donald Trump's administration to ramp up deportations and revoke student visas as part of its wide-ranging efforts to fulfill his hardline immigration agenda. Federal judges in Vermont have similarly ordered immigration authorities to release from custody students at Tufts University and Columbia University who were arrested after engaging in pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus. Reiss, who is presiding over a lawsuit Petrova filed challenging her immigration detention, said Petrova raised a substantial claim that "her current detention is the product of a process that has nothing to do with the merits of this case." Reiss said the embryos were "non-hazardous, non-toxic, non-living, and posed a threat to no one," and that Petrova had established a likelihood of proving they did not qualify as the type of biological material she needed to declare to customs. Reiss said that while Petrova asked at the airport to be allowed to return to France, the government instead detained her with the intent to deport her to Russia, a prospect Petrova has said she fears after protesting Russia's war in Ukraine. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
