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...addition to the belt, Miuccia Prada laid down her gauntlet with a silhouette that was decidedly narrow and attenuated - even when it was very very short - amid the dominant trends in Milan of short full skirts, airy fabrics and a dusty pink color palette. The crowd at her show usually likes to be whacked over the head with some totally random new fashion idea. Last season her message was aggressive to the point of barbaric. This season was much subtler. Her short satin mini-tunics and matching Kelty-style backpacks worn with jewel-toned satin turbans evoked a kind...
...Hottest Trends Miuccia Prada's wrapped rugged belt is copied almost immediately, while the star of the spring season just might be fabric
...Only in Milan can you watch a trend walk right off one runway and onto several others in a matter of hours. On day three of fashion week it was the wrapped rugged belt that showed up on Miuccia Prada?s runway - a men?s version cinched tightly around the waist and looped over once - on Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon this place was belt city. There were the early adapters: magazine editors teetering out of the Four Season?s hotel with brown belts cinching their silk frocks. Then at runway shows like Trussardi?s, bright red or yellow python belts...
Until recently, Vienna's sex and drug trades were centered around the Gürtel, or "belt," as locals term the outer ring road laid out in an 1890 city plan by renowned architect Otto Wagner. Prostitutes filled the pay-per-hour hotels and drug dealers lined the grimy streets, every meter of which seemed covered in lurid graffiti. But in 1996, municipal authorities[an error occurred while processing this directive] launched an urban-regeneration scheme that today is starting to bear real fruit. The sex workers and pushers are gone and a Gürtel address...
...Lula paid for the program by cutting spending during his first two years in office, but he has been handing out more money in the lead-up to the election and he will have to tighten his belt again if he wins another term, economists agree. Growth is stunted - at an average of 2.6% over the last three years, it is around half the Latin American average and way behind rival emerging markets such as like China and India - but his success with the Bolsa Familia makes victory almost certain, in spite of his lack of action elsewhere. Although...