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...Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto creates the sort of high-art apparel often referred to as innovative, cerebral and, on occasion, unwearable. Only the particularly adventurous--and wealthy--are likely to don his elaborately constructed designs, with their asymmetric hemlines and exaggeratedly large collars. But some of his most coveted offerings of late are supremely practical. Last year Yamamoto teamed up with Adidas to design a line of sneakers, and the results--slip-ons in floral patterns or brocades, for example--are comfortable and versatile enough to wear with his own collections or even jeans from the Gap. Of course...
...there are signs owners are catching on. Teams this year were allowed for the first time to market their own licensed apparel; the Sharks recently sealed a deal with Adidas worth around $400,000, which includes a one-month training trip to the U.S. A new Taiwanese-owned team allowed into the league this year, the privately held Sina Lions, is raising the bar in terms of shrewd professionalism. Co-owner Daniel Tu managed to drum up $1 million in sponsorships in the Lions' first season. Still, the U.S.-educated Tu, former president of STAR TV in Taiwan...
...world’s “first” daguerreotypes, Sandworth and Hawes 1846-47 “Operations Under Ether,” underscore daguerreotypy’s scientific foundation, used here to capture the first instance of anesthesia-assisted surgery. Stoic and stern of countenance and apparel, the surgeons contrast in sharp relief with the patient, who, exists a blur in the center, a wild, smeared profusion of thrashing limbs and jerking torso. The picture is ultimately posed and gives the air of calm composure, but these stately figures also exude a certain palpable unease and skepticism...
DIED. STANLEY MARCUS, 96, pioneering high-end retailer who transformed a family-run women's-apparel store into the opulent Dallas-based emporium Neiman Marcus; in Dallas. Voted the ugliest boy in his high school class, Marcus went on to receive an M.B.A. from Harvard and made his mark in retailing with the introduction of personalized gift wrapping, in-store fashion shows and his legendary line of extravagant his-and-her gifts, which included a pair of Beechcraft airplanes...
...state-supported industries and farms that can't compete with the more efficient producers that will have access to China. The 143 other WTO members are making a similar bet: that they will lose less business by opening themselves wider to China's exports of, say, textiles and apparel, than they will gain through new factories in China and new exports of technical know-how and certain grains. (Uncle Ben's is not expected any time soon.) There's enough efficiency to be gained from quickened global commerce that all these bets may well turn out winners...