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Viktor and Rolf are crestfallen. The Dutch designers - fashion-set favorites who are now out to prove that they're not too quirky for mainstream success - are in London for their first-ever movie premiere, the opening of Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor and their friend and muse Tilda Swinton. Part of Leicester Square is cordoned off and Swinton, whose short red hair and long black chiffon Viktor & Rolf dress make her look like a fiery upside-down exclamation point, is signing autographs and posing. Viktor and Rolf trail behind her. It's all so nearly perfect, and yet ? "There...
...Swinton, whose career is supple enough to include independent films like Young Adam and Hollywood blockbusters like The Beach, personifies the individual yet popular reach to which the designers aspire. "Tilda calls it user-friendliness," says Horsting. "Be yourself, but be user-friendly. Allow people to enter your world. Make it fathomable." Even without the Louvre show, this has been a pretty fathomable and user-friendly year for the duo. They did a capsule collection of j180 tuxedos, ?60 shirts and ?170 trousers for the famous La Redoute mail-order catalog in France. And with a little help from Swinton...
Other campus institutions, unfortunately, have disbanded in the past year—Subject to Change, FinkFankFunk and the Capability. But in their place are the Jesse Andrews Taste Explosion (an evolution of FFF) and a new outfit formed by Ben Scheuer from the Capability and his brother Adam...
...hunkering down for a longer tour of duty than they ever expected, was over. It is not. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Simon Robinson, Vivienne Walt and Michael Ware/Baghdad, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Viveca Novak, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller, Michael Weisskopf and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...game started off on the right foot for the Crimson, as senior Adam Kingston’s kickoff sailed deep into the end zone only to be run out by Northeastern returner Shawnn Gyles. It proved to be a bad decision, as Harvard senior Collin Blackburn forced Gyles to cough up the ball which Robert Balkema recovered for the Crimson...