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Truth be known, there have been two waves of Cavalli: the first in the early 1970s when a barefoot Brigitte Bardot was spotted in his designs in St.-Tropez, and the second in the late '90s when Cavalli was rediscovered by rock-'n'-roll stylists...
...Taillac's atelier. Lit by stark winter sunlight, the room's entire floor is laid with mattresses covered by white sheets. De Taillac, 41, in a brilliant red tunic with a red wrap, emerges from a back room and introduces three assistants from France and Sweden, who pad around barefoot and then settle cross-legged behind low tables...
...including 1,000 overseas. Many of the new locations will be just 2,000 sq. ft., a third as big as most current outlets. That will cut costs, and the result, May hopes, will boost morale and profit margins, which have been sagging. "At FedEx, we talk about walking barefoot 24 miles in the snow to deliver a customer's package," says May. "I want FedEx Kinko's employees to have a dose of that [spirit] as well...
...Before he could issue a distress signal, three fiber-glass speedboats with powerful outboard motors pulled alongside the Semlow. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder to the ship and scrambled aboard. "There were 15 to 20 men wearing shorts and T shirts," says Mahalingam. Those who boarded were barefoot but carrying pistols, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The pirates rushed to the bridge, where in halting English they quizzed Mahalingam and his nine-man crew--eight Kenyans and a Tanzanian--about their religion and told them they were being taken hostage. They told the captain...
...cargo boat often chartered by the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) to ship aid to Africa's neediest. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder to the ship and scrambled aboard. "There were 15 to 20 men wearing shorts and T shirts," remembers Mahalingam. The boarders were barefoot but carrying pistols, AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The pirates rushed to the bridge where, in halting English, they demanded to see the captain; they quizzed Mahalingam and his nine-man crew-eight Kenyans and a Tanzanian-about their religion and told them they were being taken hostage. "The pirates were...