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Here's a fashion trend you may or may not want to reel in: stingray chic. Known in the trade as shagreen, stingray skin is making a bit of a splash in the accessory department this season. Cartier is offering a limited-edition shagreen jewelry pouch, and Bill Blass has launched a new line of shagreen-banded watches. "Some customers like [shagreen] because it resembles pave-set gems," says jeweler Stephen Webster, whose eponymous lines--seen on celebs like Pink and Oprah--feature some shagreen items. But does harvesting stingrays for fashion have an environmental impact? Stingrays are not listed...
...spate of food-inspired perfumes has hit the market, including Cartier's Le Baiser du Dragon, which is laced with hints of chocolate and caramel, and J. Lo.'s Still Jennifer Lopez, which features top notes of sake. "Rum, licorice, milk and rice flavors are now used in perfumes frequently," says Jean-Michel Duriez, a perfumer for Jean Patou Paris...
...Prime Minister, lamented that most of the princely states were "sinks of reaction and incompetence." A mass of desperately poor peasants tilled the land for the benefit of a small group of landowners; at the top of the pyramid, skimming the landowners' profits for his gilt-plated cars and Cartier necklaces, sat the maharaja, the parasite in chief...
They smell good enough to eat--but don't. A spate of food-inspired perfumes has hit the market, including Cartier's Le Baiser du Dragon, which is laced with hints of chocolate and caramel, and J. Lo's Still Jennifer Lopez, which features top notes of sake. "Rum, licorice, milk and rice flavors are now used in perfumes frequently," says Jean-Michel Duriez, a perfumer for Jean Patou Paris. The company's latest scent, Enjoy, carries notes of black-currant bud, green banana and pear. Observes Michael Edwards, author of the yearly guidebook Fragrances of the World: "Gourmand notes...
...cinemas have closed since 1985 in the Latin Quarter alone, the heart of repertoire moviegoing. Even though the independent theaters receive national subsidies in the tens of thousands of euros per screen, "it will be tough for theaters like ours in the next few years," says Daniel Cartier, projection manager at the illustrious Le Champo cinema, which has been run by the same family since 1939. Despite the theater's overall historic popularity, a recent James Bond revival was poorly attended. The culprit is obvious, at least to Cartier: the series' ubiquity on home video. "A decade ago, these seats...