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...Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art (momat.go.jp), this sweeping exhibition comprises work shot over 40 years by a remarkably diverse group of photographers. One common theme is Germany's sudden rise (and subsequent decline) as an industrial power; look out for the grim, 1960s factory pictures by Bernd and Hilla Becher (the oldest work on show) or the disturbing aridity of Hans Christian Schink's images of an empty autobahn (among the newest photographs displayed). Even when the subject matter isn't German?as in Andreas Gursky's vast photographs of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange?there is often...
...site for a Protestant experiment in monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizè, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution...In the early 1960s, without invitation, a few youthful wanderers began to stop at the monastery to join in the simple, thrice-daily prayers and help with the chores...[In 1973] more than 70,000 young people signed in for a few days to several months. Most of the pilgrims share a vague spiritual hunger...Alois...
...Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art (momat.go.jp), this sweeping exhibition comprises work shot over 40 years by a remarkably diverse group of photographers. One common theme is Germany's sudden rise (and subsequent decline) as an industrial power; look out for the grim, 1960s factory pictures by Bernd and Hilla Becher (the oldest work on show) or the disturbing aridity of Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born...
When Lacoste brought the shirts to the U.S. in the 1950s, they were a huge hit--the perfect preppie fashion statement--and their popularity lasted through the 1960s. But General Mills (as in cereals, not woolens) acquired the brand in 1969 during one of corporate America's periodically insane conglomerate phases and decided to combine Lacoste with another brand, Izod. The company got lucky, riding the preppie fashion wave in the 1980s. Then, desperate for sales growth, Big G cheapened the shirt, reduced the price to $35, and sold it everywhere, even to low-end stores like Wal-Mart. "They...
Fiske's corporate face-lift fits into a grand plan hatched by Leslie Wexner, the iconic founder and CEO of the Limited Brands, who built the company into a $10 billion retailer largely on the premise that people are willing to pay more for perceived quality. In the 1960s, when middle America bought clothes at department stores, Wexner started a boutiquey chain of shops called the Limited. But now that competitors have flooded the specialty apparel scene and mall fashion has gone commodity, Wexner is changing his game, looking for growth from personal care at Bath & Body Works, from lingerie...