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...neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses and blazers inspired by the flourishes of baroque furniture?mingle a more prosaic product: Takizawa's imaginative take on Lee jeans and Champion sweatshirts. "For too long, fashion was something people could look at but couldn't imagine wearing," says Takizawa, whose collaboration with the decidedly unglamorous American clothing companies debuted this spring. "I wanted to mix the street and art and create something totally...
...adorn everything from refrigerators to boxes of seaweed sprinkles. Consumers, especially the key youth segment, prefer splashing out on recognizable icons?an almost Pavlovian response to a society awash in symbolism. No surprise then, that one of the details that Takizawa is most proud of in his collaboration with Champion is the way he reinterpreted the sweatshirt maker's embroidered "C" monogram into a tricolor abstraction. Shoemaker Mihara, too, stamped his sneakers with a cartoon rendition of Puma's feline logo on the soles?an anim?-inspired touch that has won plaudits in Japanese fashion magazines...
...Tricorner hats-off to TIME for your marvelous feature on Franklin. Think of how much less hawkish our country might be if, to keep us humble, we had selected the turkey for our national bird, as Franklin preferred, instead of the eagle. A champion of the right of all to be heard regardless of differing opinions, Franklin would have a lot to say about today's election process. He would demand that voters know the positions of all the presidential candidates, Democrats and Republicans, and insist they all get equal time in public debates. LAURIE DOBSON Rowayton, Conn...
...might look to the past for inspiration, but Shido (who, in the Kabuki tradition, is commonly known by his first name) is very much a man of his day. His film debut in last summer's Ping Pong, in which he played a demonically intense table-tennis champion named Dragon, netted him a Best Newcomer trophy at the Japanese Academy Awards, along with a host of other laurels. He followed up on the small screen in Japan's first sitcom, HR, as a bleached-blond rebel who spooks his night-school classmates with insinuations of underworld connections, and orders pizza...
...been just as heady. In March she won the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, with personal bests in 60-m sprint, high jump, shot put and long jump. In June she moved outdoors to Tallinn, Estonia, where she scored 6,692 points beating reigning Olympic champion, Denise Lewis, to bring her ever closer to the senior record. There's little doubt that Kluft is Olympic-gold material, and her rapid progress will ensure a stellar show in Athens. But she is keeping her feet on the ground (figuratively if not literally). After the Tallinn win she told...