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...qualms about spending the inheritance. Sabena Knust, owner of a Munich art gallery, says lots of money is being poured into modern art: an original painting by a contemporary artist goes for $50,000, a print for $4,000. Regina Spelman, an editor at the German-language Harper's Bazaar, sees vast amounts being spent on apparel: "Germans use clothes to define their place in society and are willing to spend a lot to make a statement." Hamburg Designer Peter Schmidt notes that "people are willing to pay to surround themselves with well-designed things." Kurt Gustmann, an editor...
Saint Laurent managed to dominate the news in the semiannual pret-a-porter bazaar -- clothes that are manufactured in quantity at much lower prices than the hand-sewed fantasies of haute couture. It was, however, not his fluent, confident designs but his health that made headlines: the fragile designer was hospitalized a few days before his show. His partner, Pierre Berge, issued a statement blaming nervous exhaustion and emphasizing to an AIDS-ravaged industry that no infectious disease was involved...
...difficult to find heroes and villains. The journalistic world is not like some slave market, in which the roles of exploiter and exploited are clear-cut. It is more like a chaotic bazaar, filled with news peddlers trying to get public exposure and journalists seeking dramatic stories, quotes or facts. Some vendors come to the bazaar for sport: New York hoaxer Alan Abel, for example, specializes in planting false news items, like last fall's stories about the bogus $35 million lottery winner. Others show up because it is their job. Writing in the Gannett Center Journal, Scott Cutlip...
...vanity. Her nails, makeup and hair are always just so. She maintains that grooming is part of her job, "as people make judgments about youbased on your appearance." Nearly 6 ft. tall, imperially slim and sleekly dressed, she is usually the cynosure of attention at any gathering. Harper's Bazaar named her one of their eight "Over-40 and Sensational" women last summer, and she is a stunning refutation of the cliche of the dowdy feminist. In an era when nonprofit organizations seek out celebrity spokespeople to get their message across, she is the public relations ideal, a spokeswoman...
Gambling may have brought to Atlantic City a Pompeian profusion of statues, but the city's long-standing sense of carnival still flourishes. The casino boutiques may sell Gucci leather, but the Boardwalk is a bazaar of plastic beads, mugs shaped like women's breasts, and baby sand sharks in glass jars. When Las Vegas was nothing but a jukebox in the desert, Atlantic City had clam-eating tournaments and midget boxing matches; today one of the Boardwalk's main attractions is Celestine Tate, a disabled woman who lies on a stretcher like a beached mermaid and plays a Casio...