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...creative director, Scott Fellows, has something most designers don't: a Harvard M.B.A. (He also attended the Fashion Institute of Technology.) He and his thirtysomething former Harvard roommate, Abel Halpern, who is a managing director at Texas Pacific, have added all the right ingredients: a minimalist new store in Berlin and one on its way in Los Angeles (appositely opposite Gucci and Prada, which started this whole thing), editorial wooing and an edgy ad campaign. Oh, yes, and clothes. The Milan runway show in March drew accolades. Don't be surprised if your teenager starts haranguing...
...Jewish Museum of Berlin, a shiny metal structure with zigzagging crevices on the façade that resemble a broken Star of David, opens with its permanent collection on Sept. 9. Meanwhile, starting June 17 in London's Hyde Park, Libeskind's shrunken, horizontal version of his proposed Spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum will serve as a temporary café and lecture space adjoining the Serpentine Gallery...
...designing the Jewish Museum, Libeskind's biggest challenge was melding the old and the new, not just physically (the museum is an extension of an elaborate 18th century Baroque structure), but also psychologically. Says Libeskind: "I thought one had to confront the issues of continuity, tradition and the New Berlin - what happened and what can happen in the future...
...that end, visitors arrive through the old building and then enter Libeskind's extension via a tunnel. This leads to the exhibit, entitled "2,000 Years of German-Jewish History," which includes thousands of objects depicting Jewish family and cultural life through the ages in Berlin. One area of the museum, however, remains completely empty to symbolize all that has been lost and destroyed: the Void, a concrete corridor that runs through the entire structure. "It is meant to show that even at the height of culture in Berlin, Jews and others were not accepted as full citizens," Libeskind explains...
...raving" to her audience on a New York radio show titled "Don't Get Me Started," began her journalism career at age 51. Since then, she has reported on such varied subjects as birth control techniques to reduce Paris pigeons and to the retirement of guard dogs from the Berlin Wall. She has served as a free-lance correspondent for both NPR and the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in Paris, and now from her Cape Cod home after returning to the United States...