On Second Thought, Annie, Don’t Get Your Gun
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Slate - Poke around the vast consumer products marketplace, and it’s easy to find dead or dormant brands that have been revived or trotted out for second or third chances, from low-end autos to high-end couture, from mass-market soft drinks to gossipy
Overnight Couture
Harvard Crimson - Paris it was not, but at least the smell of stale beer had successfully been aired out of the Sanctum, The Crimson s venue for parties, writers meetings, and at long last its very first fashion show. Five hopeful designers gathered to show
Five Things I Have to Have Now
Baltimore Sun - Leslie Mancuso, 50, is a world traveler, but most of her destinations are not exactly haute couture hotspots. “I just got back from Ghana, the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. I leave in a month for Malawi, Tanzania and South Africa,” says Mancuso, the
The Top 100 notable happenings of 2007
Miami Herald - Esteban Cortazar had a stellar r sum as a celebrated young designer before he nailed the job as head of the French couture house Emanuel Ungaro. The Colombian-born, Miami-raised Cortazar has decamped to Paris, where his first runway show is
Selling the Good Book by its cover
Los Angeles Times - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — The original scribes of the Bible may have been inspired by God. Their modern-day successors? They find inspiration in vacuum cleaners, polka-dot bedspreads and a slick, hot-pink Juicy Couture purse. This all may sound a bit
Fast forward: Cast a warm eye on life, on death, in “Forever”; Charles
Salon - I’m not sure whether my favorite character is the cab driver cum chanteur who is visiting Iranian poet Sadegh Hedayat, or the radiantly beautiful middle-aged woman whose father was a haute-couture shoemaker, or the woman mourning her much younger



