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...about 15% of all fragrance-line sales. But a more discriminating customer may also demand more unusual products. "We're attracting people who are fed up with buying just because they've been told to buy," says Anne Schneider, managing director in Britain of French niche house L'Artisan Parfumeur, whose scents include Mure et Musc and Mimosa pour...
Then came Giotto. He was an artisan like countless others of the age, though he possessed something his predecessors and contemporaries did not: an inner eye that could see how human figures could be brought to life on a wall. He replaced golden backdrops with the hills, meadows and houses familiar to 14th century Italians. In those earthly settings he placed three-dimensional Christs and Virgins, saints and sinners, painted as ordinary humans invested with natural emotions. His sweetly weary Madonna locks eyes with the observer as she swaddles a baby-size Jesus...
...look as if it came straight off the racks at Banana Republic? At WORLD2MARKET.COM, you can find anything from a beaded Huichol Mexican Indian mask to a hand-embroidered quilt from India. Even better, the site buys products only from humanitarian organizations committed to improving the life of the artisans by ensuring a safe work environment and a living wage as well as a savings plan. That means $11 of the $46 you pay for a hand-blown Peruvian vase goes directly to the artisan co-op that made it--about twice what traditional retail outlets would...
...rapacious toy collector is leaning over the old man repairing the torn arm of a small cloth figure. "So how long is this gonna take?" Al shouts. And the gnomish artisan snaps back with a rage born in loving care, "You can't! Push...
...last January's Sundance Film Festival, the big finds were The Blair Witch Project and Happy, Texas. The first film, which its makers sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1.1 million, went on to become the feel-scared (or -shafted) movie of the summer and to earn nearly $140 million at the domestic box office. By this yardstick, Happy, Texas, which Miramax Films picked up for about $6 million, should sweep the Oscars and outgross Titanic...