Nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, Minaj's rapping technique has been hailed by critics for its use of alter-egos, accents (notably, British) and rapid-fire pace. Equally well-known for her unique sense of style, her use of colourful wigs and outlandish costumes ranks her as one of the world's leading fashion icons. Minaj is in the midst of her Pink Friday: RELOADED Tour.. The ancient Chinese people had very distinctive social classes. Each of these has specific styles and significance of dressing. Varied symbols are used on the clothing to distinguish between various strata of society. Fashion industry watchers wonder whether more designers willuseTimes Square neon signs as a virtualrunway in the future, like Carmen Marc Valvodid with his spring/summer 2010 show during New York Fashion Week. More to the point, will more designers follow his lead next time by asking theWorld Gold Counciland theNasdaq OMX Group Inc. orother financial markets players to help foot the bill?. However, the guys manage to pull Sunako out of her shell long enough in a couple of places to save Kyohei and then save their own behinds from the landlady. When Sunako acts like a normal human, she is extremely cool. She's very physical and also very pretty when she tries (or the guys try for her.) But, for every step forward that they take with her, Sunako takes a step and a half backward. I am dreaming of spring and sunshine and skirts and sandals during a week that has been one of the coldest on record for most of the Eastern United States. To feed my fantasies, it was particularly appealing to see what the Fashion Group International projects to be the key spring/summer 2013 fashion trends. At the new-and-not-quite-yet-opened Malmaison on Water Street in Georgetown (the brainchild of the tall and beautiful Omar Popal, who used to be a model himself), the fashionistas of Washington DC came together for an evening of dreams.. Another trend seen in Geneva was the arrival of sleeker looking wagons. Two examples were the Honda Civic and the Toyota Auris wagon variants unveiled in Geneva. After examining both it is clear that a wagon in Europe is no longer going to be seen as a utility vehicle for a plumber. They did blood tests and chest x-rays to test for a pulmonary embolism but both came back negative, EKG came back normal. (I have since read that you can get false negative reports on the blood tests and that it does not always show up on early chest x-rays). I was diagnosed with costalchondritis (?) and/or pleurisy.