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...older brother, James A. Carmichael ’01; Tom Stoppard, the playwright; Bill Waterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes; and Wayne Thiebaud, the painter...
...seriousness, take a break from papers and problem sets and frenzied job-hunting once in a while—even while you’re studying for a midterm. Go to the nearest bookseller and spend an hour there. Pick up a Calvin and Hobbes anthology (I recommend the Tenth Anniversary Collection) and tell me what you think...
...Calvin, Donna and Ralph: revered designers, handy with a hemstitch and all, but getting a bit long in the tooth (Calvin Klein is 60, Donna Karan's 54 and Ralph Lauren's 63). Why do people who have enough disposable income to drop $200 on a shirt let their parents' generation tell them how to dress? Perhaps because the next design oligarchy has not yet clearly emerged. But during Fashion Week in New York City last week, three younger voices made themselves heard over the fray. Marc Jacobs reimagined retro futurism with a bunch of nifty jumpers-and-tights looks...
...rural western Turkey, 120 km from Istanbul. More than 1,500 people work here at the company's mammoth factory in the middle of rolling farmland, churning out up to 11 million pairs of jeans a year, more than half of which are for well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang, and the rest for Mavi. State-of-the-art production facilities at Cerkezkoy gave Mavi the edge they needed. Unlike other global brands which outsource to many different manufacturers, controlling its own flexible, high-tech production plant means Mavi can afford to tweak each pair...
...with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie and the narrator’s phobias surrounding...