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...like my designs to represent my country and my culture in the wider world and to show we're not just rich kids who don't do anything," she says. Her idol is Gwen Stefani. "I love her! She's kashka. That's the Emirati word for cool...
...collision of races and classes, and Hollywood loves issue movies that push the hot button. But what about Brokeback? Didn?t that film pioneer man-love in a pup tent? Sure, but homosexuality is just not an issue in Hollywood. The town was gay before gay was cool (that would be the summer of 2003, when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy became a brief TV sensation). Indeed, homosexual roles are prize-winning plums for actors-like Hoffman in Capote -as long as they aren?t gay, or, if they are, don?t admit...
...mission is to create a structure that is sensitive to the culture and climate of its place," says Foster. The structure will practice what the architect preaches: enter the building and you'll be greeted by Ice Falls, a three-story waterfall that uses, yes, collected rainwater to cool and humidify a six-story atrium. And sensors will monitor energy usage and readjust it during off-hours. Foster's latest environmental commitment soars 42 floors up?a shimmering stack of steel diamonds. The tower itself rises out of the original Hearst building, a 1928 Art Deco landmark. "The project ultimately...
...Germany, narrated by Death. But wait. If you can fight your way past the rather challenging first few pages, you will find that Liesel, whose hobby is stealing books, especially stealing banned books from the Nazis, is a heroine worth fighting for, and that Death is actually a pretty cool guy to hang out with ("I like this human idea of the grim reaper," he says, "I like the scythe"). Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor...
That combination is proving irresistible to creative types on the lookout for a collaborator who is utterly commercial without sacrificing cool. Japanese design icon Takashi Murakami and artists from Brooklyn to Hong Kong have designed toys sold by Kidrobot. Its vinyl characters have sported clothing by Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander, and New York City's Barneys sells an exclusive line of Kidrobot sneakers...