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Michael Kors to buy Versace for over $2 billion

Bright shirts designed by Gianni Versace in a Berlin exhibition (picture-alliance/dpa/J. Kalaene)

As global fashion house Michael Kors announces it will acquire legendary Italian fashion giant Versace, here are highlights from a Berlin retrospective exhibition that is also set to be on show in Seoul in 2019. 

Lederhosen: Everything you need to know about Oktoberfest's favorite leather shorts

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Lederhosen were not always popular. They nearly disappeared in the 1880s! But thanks to one Bavarian teacher and his drinking buddies, the shorts will fill Oktoberfest tents. DW presents some surprising lederhosen facts. 

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