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There's little of the hustle and bustle that Ghadames saw in its heyday, although there are a few stalls where hagglers can pick up handicrafts made by the local Tuareg tribe - and in contrast to many other North African medinas, there's no pressure to buy. Ghadames is a town attuned to the desert, and this relaxed atmosphere is one of the real joys of going there. As the renovations continue, tour buses will follow. But, for now, this is one of the few places where you can still intentionally get lost alone...
Marital erosion is especially rampant in the celebrity world, where competing careers and the relentless scrutiny of the public’s microscope drive couples apart almost instantly. By contrast, in the political sphere, it seems that “I do” still means forever. Nowhere is this peculiarity more apparent than in the wake of a high-profile political sex scandal...
...design team is quite different. In one room 15 young designers toil away at Macs. Their technical know-how stands in direct contrast to a woman who hand-paints jungle-like flowers for a Ferragamo scarf and a man nearby who loosely sketches polo players for Ralph Lauren. Nearby are the famous archives, stored in an enormous hangar. The archives are organized by style and designer, and walking through the aisles is a heady experience of color fantasy and craftsmanship, a sort of fashion-world memory lane...
...novel ways. “We wanted to show how people interpret [Western hip-hop] differently and recreate it using their own cultural background and traditions,” Wang said. They achieved this end by opening their segment with Western hip-hop inspired clothing to act as a contrast to the more Eastern clothing that followed. The outfits underscored the gracefulness yet ferocity of the Asian style. Female models donned jeans and tank tops layered with brightly colored sweatshirts and patterned dresses. Models for the show were chosen based not on their physical appearance, but on whether the directors...
...Bullet in the Brain” and sorely disappoints, precisely because it doesn’t have the subtle simplicity of the other. The latter is rhythmic and nuanced, focusing on the main character’s queer sense of humor rather than the gun-pulling action. In contrast, the new story is stuffed into kitschy, reductive binaries: life versus death, Hispanic versus white.“Her Dog” isn’t a letdown because of its reductive symbolism and overt motifs, but because it’s just an inexplicable anomaly. A man walks his dead...