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...films coming out," she said backstage after the show, "and so I sat there and thought about which gown for which opening in which country." She was particularly taken by a black number with pleating through the bodice. Don't be surprised if it turns up on a red carpet this awards season...
...Asia are not, in fact, by a single artist. They "must be the earliest surviving examples in the Turkic world of pictures made for display during recitals of stories," says Filiz Çagman, one of the show's curators and director of the Topkapi Palace Museum. Among several stunning carpets in the exhibition is a beautifully preserved woolen one from 13th century Konya. The carpet came from the mausoleum of the Anatolian Seljuk ruler Sultan Ala'al-Din Kay Qubad, who died in 1237, and is unique in its simple composition and color scheme. Simplicity was not an effect sought...
Were you nervous? Inside, yes. But as soon as I put my foot on the red carpet I thought, You have come a long...
Count Barry Minkow as one of the more unlikely people ever to be a law-enforcement lecturer. A felon, he was busted in his early 20s by the FBI for engineering one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history. His ZZZZ Best carpet-cleaning scam, a mid-1980s securities caper, was worth $300 million before it went up in smoke. That rap landed him in a federal pen on a 25-year sentence. After serving seven years and four months, he got out in 1995 and, like the con man portrayed in the hit movie Catch...
...Finally, look at the carpet as something you're going to be living with for a long time. Study it in different lighting conditions?take it outside and see how the sun changes its colors, or try out the carpet at home for a few days, which most shops will allow. If they don't, then sleep on the decision and come back the next day. "You are going to have this carpet for the rest of your life," says Tawab. "You shouldn't buy if you are not in love." Or if you're in any doubt about...