Word: armanied
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...canal?the first whiff of something rotten in the air?and steps directly into a city overeager to offer its wares. The first building to confront new arrivals is a six-storied, mirrored monument to China's status as the world's counterfeit capital. Shops display perfect replicas of Armani suits, Gucci handbags, Nike trainers, Rolex watches, Cartier jewelry, as well as racks of pirated videos and discs. Outside, televisions air graphic advertisements for clinics offering breast enlargements and other cosmetic surgeries. Dr. Cao Mengjun says his Fuhua Plastic and Aesthetic Hospital sees more than 2,000 people a year...
...thanks to tanning advancements, heavy winter hides are giving way to summer textures that are as light as cotton and so versatile that designers are treating leather like fabric. Armani, Oscar de la Renta and Badgley Mischka are leathering up tube tops and evening gowns for the sultry months. Even the pimpy FUBU line is in on the skin with its line of leather NBA basketball shirts. Expect everything from shorts, bikinis, evening dresses and hot-weather codpieces made of hide in a store near you soon...
...know that fusion is hot, sizzling, more caliente than a salsa beat. It's that multiculti urge that propels us to douse a hamburger with teriyaki sauce or buy an Armani jacket with a Nehru collar. Such marriages of East and West are a harmless intermingling of cultures: a war never started by adding a dollop of wasabi to potato chips or a bindhi to Madonna's forehead...
...Take for example Duncan, a 36-year-old factory sales rep who showed up in a dapper black pinstripe suit ("not Armani - it was made in Hong Kong") while most around him were dressed in T-shirts and baggies. Wasn't he overdressed? No, he said, he'd worn the suit to prove that one couldn't judge a book by its cover. You could put a man who looked like "corporate America" in the middle of nowhere and he'd survive...
...rivalry between GIORGIO ARMANI and Gianni Versace did not end with Versace's death. In this month's Vanity Fair, Armani claims that Versace once confided to him that while Armani clothed elegant women, Versace himself "dressed sluts." Not content with the compliment, Armani jokes, "molto slutty." Versace's sister Donatella told Italian papers she is "absolutely sure that what Mr. Giorgio Armani asserts is untrue," and indeed Armani, 66, has already backtracked, explaining that he meant "slutty" in a good way. "Versace's style is known for its aggressiveness--it's totally different from mine. That...