Word: cottons
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Using castoffs can have hidden costs. When you take someone else's junk, it's hard to know exactly what you're getting. "The waste streams aren't always consistent--or consistently available," says Betsy Cotton, TerraCycle's CFO. Pacific Biodiesel has run out of cooking-oil suppliers and is exploring the idea of growing crops like soy or sunflower to provide oil for fuel...
...here in Milan are showing very new textures and surface treatments. At Pringle, the fabled Scottish cashmere house, there was an appliqu?d gauze that looked almost as if sequins had been photo-printed onto it. Tomas Maier, the tastemaker behind Bottega Veneta opened his beautiful show with a paper cotton dress and proceeded with a litany of shellacked and smocked cottons that were done in romantic shades of dusty pink and mauve. And at Marni athletic-style mesh was thrown into the mix of shiny patent leather and matte cotton...
...Vassort, dressed comfortably in jeans and blue cotton shirt, stands on the terrace of his whitewashed house, taking in the view of long golden beaches and a broad estuary snaking eastward into a hot, rocky valley. Retired since selling his restaurant near Avignon, France in 2002, Vassort, 74, now lives year-round in this sun-washed setting where he once took his other stories...
...Women’s Center Director Susan B. Marine. Students who won tickets at the games were able to cash them in for prizes like DVDs, $200 gift certificates to the Coop and stuffed animals. With pop music blaring in the background, students munched on caramel apples, cotton candy, popcorn, corn dogs, and cheeseburgers as they convened on the grass or on Widener and Memorial Church steps. “I’m just having fun dancing with my roommates,” said Sophie Rengarajan ’10 of Grays Hall...
...Argentina. And Diesel honcho Renzo Rosso pumped up the volume with his 1980s-style high-waisted skinny jeans and blousons - all in white and gold. Finally a trio of California surfer dudes who go by the name of Trovato presented their collection of preppy chic polo shirts and cotton canvas clam-diggers in a tableau vivant that was meant to evoke an estate auction. They sing their tune by way of telling elaborate stories that give the straightforward merch a sexier context. This season the plot consisted of a rich, irreverent couple who had lost their fortune...