Neckties

Mohammad Javad enters a fashionable shop in well-to-do north Tehran with his mother. For the first time ever he wants a necktie, long banned in Iran as a symbol of Western decadence.

The 27-year-old dentist said he opted for this clothing accessory in hopes of looking his best during the first meeting with his future in-laws.

A Turkish designer presided over the fashion board of the Royal Ascot Races that has been organized for three centuries in the name of the British Royal family.

"This has been the most proud and special moment of my 30-year fashion career," Zeynep Kartal told daily Hürriyet on June 18.

At first glance, Luca Victor Iliesiu looks like a rock star or a Hollywood star, not like the young man who has won a NASA competition and awards in international contests when he was in high school, now studying Physics at Princeton, one of the most prestigious universities in the world.