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...Design, Stella McCartney asked a few of her friends to model for her 1995 graduate show. As Mom and Dad beamed with pride - Dad being former Beatle Paul McCartney - Stella's friends took the stage: Kate Moss had flown in from New York and Naomi Campbell from Berlin. The collection was well-received, and she set up her own company. Two years later when the French house of Chloé rang and asked if she'd succeed Karl Lagerfeld as designer, she replied with a resounding yes and gave up her own label. McCartney, famous for tight jeans and sexy...
...reality for an entire generation. And in that sense, the rest of Europe is starting to resemble Brussels more than it thinks. The polyglot, Continental crowd at the Brussels stagiaire party was hardly unique: on any given evening, a similar scene could unfold in the Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, or the Canal St.-Martin in Paris, or the Docas district in Lisbon, or the clubs in Vienna's Bermuda Dreieck...
...cities every week, trailed by a transnational community of fans. "There are stronger communions that cut across national identity," says Eric Tong-Cuong, the founder of the French record company Naive. Events like London's Notting Hill Carnival and the Love Parade, the annual three-day outdoor rave in Berlin, have become massive pan-European parties. "Our generation functions tribally but you can belong to several tribes at the same time...
...tend to be enthusiastic about extending membership to Eastern and Central European countries. Says Sara Priem, 24, president of the Young European Movement, a British pro-Europe grassroots group: "It's one of those issues that's easy to be strong on because everyone agrees with it. The Berlin Wall came down when we were 10 or 11, so for us those in the east are part of Europe. There's no divide in our heads...
...commercial-free alternative rock that's edgier than most of what's heard in the U.S. (On Wednesdays, I can catch the all-Aussie Oz Music Show, airing from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Australian Eastern standard time.) For sheer novelty, I travel to Germany for an oldies fix: Berlin's Radio Paradiso still plays David Soul and Captain & Tennille...