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...didn't feel a thing.' KASSIM BAKARI, on his 14-year-old daughter Bahia, the only passenger to survive the crash of a Yemeni airliner in the Indian Ocean; 152 others are presumed dead...
...works in New York City, he finds much of his design inspiration on trips to Rio de Janeiro, where he goes to unwind. In fact, he started to go to Brazil so frequently?three times a year, at least?that he finally bought himself a beach house in Bahia, on the edge of the Atlantic rain forest. "At first I went to Rio, and then I started to branch out and go to places like Bahia," says Rodriguez. "Now when I go, I sketch a lot." He gets inspired watching the active crowds on beaches like Ipanema...
...Brazil is a particularly rich source of religious art, because during the 17th and 18th centuries it was the only art form encouraged by the country's devoutly Catholic rulers. In the states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the northeast, and Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro in the south, Portuguese settlers built baroque churches dripping with gold, silver and art. But today, much of that art is gone. "The last time I checked, we had registered 188 works of art stolen - that's since 2000," says Vanessa de Souza, a Brazilian police chief and delegate to Interpol. "We think...
...bangles and chic safari jackets. After a 10-day romp through Asia last April, Giorgio Armani returned with a vision of a fictional Asian woman in soft satin pajama pants, boxy Chinese jackets and coolie hats. Gianfranco Ferre looked over the horizon to exotic locales like San Salvador de Bahia and the Amazon rain forest for his orchid-covered creations, and included python sandals and zebra-striped dresses. But the loudest buzz of the week was in the foyer of the Hotel Diana, waiting for the Gucci show to get started. As waiters served martinis under a huge orchid-covered...
Daniela Mercury, 35, is already a superstar in Brazil as a champion of axe music (pronounced ah-shay). Her CD Sol da Liberdade throbs like blood in the arteries with the rhythms of her native Bahia, a region of Brazil with a heavy African influence...