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...four "special economic zones" where foreign investors get unusual privileges to import raw materials and semifinished goods and, to a certain degree, hire workers. But many other foreign investments are simply introducing the Chinese to some amenities, real or alleged, of life elsewhere: fast food, Coca-Cola, Pierre Cardin fashion shows, golf courses, amusement parks, even a Peking branch of Paris' famed Maxim's restaurant...
Nonetheless, in the wee hours in downtown Belgrade, Yugoslavia's troubles are invisible. At the crowded Star discothèque, the local jeunesse dorée shows off in Benetton sweaters and Pierre Cardin shirts. Yugoslavs admit that things could be much better in their version of the workers' paradise. But their restiveness is still curbed by the knowledge that things could also be much worse. --By George Russell. Reported by Kenneth W. Banta/Belgrade and Budapest
...China's blossoming romance with capitalism should wither, it will not be Pierre Cardin's fault. The indefatigable designer has been showing his wears in Chinese cities every other year since 1979. Last week, in a sort of cultural exchange with himself, Cardin, 63, brought nine Chinese models to show off his new fall and winter couture in Paris. Ages 18 to 23, they have been the hit of "collections week," though cattier observers noted one or two faux pas on the runway. One Chinese model, in a delightful reverse on Oriental-Occidental clichés, even smiled broadly...
When Roy Frowick Halston signed a deal with J.C. Penney in 1982, the once-worshipped designer’s business crumbled as J.C. Penney sales disappointed. Wary of the bad rep, Goodman and Giorgio quickly dropped Halston’s designer line. When Pierre Cardin licensed his name to a line of ready-to-wear clothes, he diluted his brand and his value plummeted. And few know that Isaac Mizrahi only launched his Target line after he had to close his own couture line after a few bad seasons, as reported by The Advocate’s Sept. 2003 issue...
...scores of lead-exposed children. A separate suit demanding a cleanup was filed by the Quapaw Indians, whose land was leased for the mines. And environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined a class action to force companies to relocate the population of two polluted towns, Picher and Cardin. Court papers suggest that mining executives knew as early as the 1930s that the contaminated dust was dangerous but sought to, in their words, "dissuade" the government from intervening. A mining-company lawyer says the charge is based on "out-of-context reading" of historical documents...