But 12 years ago, as the director of a PR agency in west London, she could hardly have pictured herself like this: wearing a bikini woven with 12,000 tiny stones and a headdress with 500 pheasant ...

feathers do indeed dance both down on the streets and high above Rio. During the fabled celebrations of Carnival, exotic costumes topped off by feathered headdresses and colorful boas flutter ...