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...race wearing Toms," Mycoskie had never worked in fashion. With a staff of seven full-time employees (including former Trovata designer John Whitledge), six sales reps and eight interns, he debuted a collection last June of 15 styles for men and women, as well as limited-edition artist versions. They quickly found their way into stores like American Rag and Fred Segal in Los Angeles, where Toms is based, and Scoop in New York City. By the fall he had sold 10,000 pairs, averaging $38 each, online and in 40 stores...
...Even in these environs, Mika stands out. He's wearing a sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers, but the jeans and sneakers are bright white and the jeans an even brighter turquoise. He is, of course, charming. "Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist," Mika says, referring to the pungent yeast-based spread that Brits put on toast and is marketed on the premise that you either love it or hate it. "I've made a Marmite record and I'm expecting strong reactions either...
...this would have happened if a community group, the Friends of the High Line, had not pushed for a more imaginative alternative. Incredibly, they prevailed, or at least have so far. Last year saw the groundbreaking for a park conceived through a collaboration between the artist-architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the landscape designer James Corner of Field Operations, which is also the firm behind the landfill park at Fresh Kills. Their plan calls for stretches of the High Line to be planted in ways meant to recall the self-seeded trees and grasses that sprouted there in the past...
...workers I have inadvertently offended. (And does one apologize by e-mail?) Von Sperling's stylish loftlike apartment is white, white, white, almost as unsustainable as perfect manners. Naturally, Von Sperling is wearing black. She is gracious, earnest, with a clipped, formal tone. Formerly a dancer and makeup artist, Von Sperling felt a calling to etiquette five years ago. She explains, "I felt surrounded by people who were badly dressed and ill mannered, and I couldn't take it anymore. I thought this was really a service that humanity needed." Her firm, Polished Social Image Consultants, coaches executives for such...
...Like someone with a water phobia? 51 Unkempt hair 52 Without a shirt 53 Yoko ___ 54 Hydrocarbon suffix 55 Fox show whose theme song is “California” 60 Israeli guns 62 Mother fucking? 66 Number of muses 67 Total, as a tab 68 Make-up artist? 69 Head, in French 70 Go too fast 71 Throw spitballs...