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...team put out a call for essays during the summer after their sophomore year, which they subjected to a four-round selection process. Various faculty members, including Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy John Holdren and Assistant Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, advised them on the publication process along...
...Chow's comedy is about a community of poor souls who find ways to survive. So are two fine films from Iranian directors, but their palette is necessarily darker, since the settings are Iraq and Afghanistan. Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly tells a story of Kurdish kids on the Turkey-Iraq border. Many have been maimed by land mines yet never stop performing the one job that brings them money?searching for mines?under the command of a charming, scheming 13-year-old who pretty much runs the town. Stray Dogs, shot in Kabul by Marziyeh Meshkini, focuses...
Panichgul (pronounced pan-itch-gal), a former fashion writer who designs under the name Thakoon, showed his first collection at the just concluded New York Fashion Week. He is one of four young Asian and Asian-American designers--including Jeffrey Chow, Derek Lam and Peter Som--who stole the spotlight under the tents in Manhattan's Bryant Park last week with quirky, quiet and sophisticated clothes...
...emerged on the Paris fashion scene in the early 1980s, were about pushing the boundaries of fashion and making radical statements on the runway--all black palettes, jackets with three sleeves--this new group looks generally to more classical and conservative muses. Panichgul is inspired by Cecil Beaton photographs. Chow--who showed bed jackets made of sequins stamped out of Coca-Cola cans and embroidered brocade coats inspired by Masai patterns--looks to such women as cosmetics mogul Helena Rubinstein. And Som, who showed gold velvet pedal pushers with delicately beaded chiffon blouses, is enamored of eccentric society women like...
...like the duality of things--something Western with something Asian or African," says Chow, 36, who was born in Hong Kong and has worked for design houses like Perry Ellis and Pucci for more than 10 years. "That's very Hong Kong, where you have East and West co-existing. And you also have a very proper approach to fashion." So far, it's a look that seems to be catching on--at least for spring...