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| Bodies of Australian, Slovak pilots recovered in Indonesia Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:15 PM PDT TIMIKA, Indonesia: The bodies of an Australian pilot and his Slovakian co-pilot who died when their small plane crashed in Indonesia's Papua province have been recovered. "At 7:00am today we sent three helicopters to recover the bodies of Susi Air pilot David Cootes from Australia and co-pilot Thomas Munk from Slovakia," Papua police spokesman Wachyono said. The choppers collected the bodies from the crash site in Yahukimo district and flew them to Biak island, off Papua's northwestern coast.
Susi Air's light Cessna Grand Caravan plane was carrying food and fuel to a remote district when it crashed Friday in bad weather. Thick fog and bad weather prevented a prompt search-and-rescue mission to the remote site.
Turbulent weather conditions in Papua have caused several aviation accidents in recent years. -- AFP |
| Kirstie Alley creates sensation with catwalk for Zang Toi Posted: 13 Sep 2011 10:51 PM PDT NEW YORK: Actress Kirstie Alley, who played the major female character in the hit American television series "Cheers" and was cast in several other Hollywood feature films, did the catwalk yesterday for Malaysia's fashion icon Zang Toi. This was the first time that Kirstie Alley modelled at a fashion show. She appeared in a stunningly beautiful blue-coloured gown designed by Zang Toi who has maintained good ties with the actress for more than a decade. Earlier, Kirstie had hailed her friendship with Zang Toi since 1993.
Indeed, Kirstie Alley's catwalk was, as one fashion aficionado told Bernama, the "cherry on the icing" for Zang Toi who looked elated as he appeared together with the actress before the cheering crowd in New York's Lincoln Center. Zang Toi, who has designed clothes for Hollywood stars and other celebrities, including Sharon Stone, Gong Li, Eva Longoria, Fergie of the Black Eye Peas, Heather Graham, the late Farrah Fawcett, Ivana Trump and Melinda Gates, is now considered an established name in the world of haute couture.
Zang Toi's show, which is part of the New York Fashion Week, was unique in many ways. It was, as Zang Toi put, inspired by the "Arab Spring". Some of his creations at the show reflected shades of Afro-Arab culture.
There was a men's desert silk mousseline linen caftan with ebony French lace and ribbon trims with a matching silk mousseline linen drawstring trousers. "It's about North Africa and my memories of Marrakech," Zang Toi explained of the creations he showed from his latest collections. References to the "Arab Spring" were also subtly visible when one of his richly-designed outfits said: 'Make love, not war'. "It's so beautiful and so exotic in that region, but there's a lot of conflict now." Zang Toi also made an important "gold statement" by including real 18-karat gold jewellery made especially for the show. He explained that gold is loved in the Arab world, adding that he had also included many stone colours of the desert such as sapphire, ebony and ivory. During the presentation of his 33 creations, Zang Toi organised background music that was a combination of North African influences intermingled with the Indian sitar and tabla (drums). The music took a turn for the sensual as he showed two presentations from his fashion theme "One thousand nights and one night" silk organza Goddess gown and beaded "One thousand nights and one night" imperial ball gown. Finally, a blond male model, wearing a men's sapphire silk velvet imperial robe lined with "One thousand nights and one night", Zang Toi deployed the classic musical score from the film "Lawrence of Arabia", that had been originally composed by the musical genius Maurice Jarre. The combination of such exotic visuals and sounds left a deep impression on the audience which reacted emotionally and responded with a huge applause. From his humble beginnings in Kelantan, Zang Toi has reached heights that most Malaysians can only dream of. Besides attaining success in his profession, Zang Toi has also created a coterie of influential friends. Indeed, he was recently voted as one of the 10 most influential Chinese-Americans. His rags-to-riches story, as many Asians say, could have been possible only in America. Zang Toi is often referred to as "Malaysia's best-known unofficial ambassador". But at heart, he likes to say, he still remains the "humble boy from Malaysia". -- BERNAMA |
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