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...designers were putting the final touches on their fall 2007 collections last month, they were dispatching fabric teams to the big trade fairs?Premiere Vision in Paris, Moda In in Milan?to scour the market for spring 2008. And looking at those fabrics is like looking into fashion's crystal ball, especially if you are a designer like Prada, who is widely considered one of the most adventurous when it comes to how far she will push the textile mills in new directions. She loves to tell the story of kid mohair, a kind of plush, teddy-bear-like pile...
Antiques of the Future author Lisa S. Roberts looks into design's crystal ball to determine which household objects might become tomorrow's collectibles...
...office/shopping/residential complex of Roppongi Hills, a sweeping new glass-and-steel national art museum has just opened, with galleries the size of aircraft hangars. Massive-and massively expensive-Hummer suvs squeeze through the city's capillary-sized streets, ferrying the wealthy to new clubs and bars like Roppongi's Crystal Lounge, which features crystal-encrusted replicas of Michelangelo's David and the Venus de Milo. Corporate Japan's balance sheet has never been stronger, led by Toyota, which just reported a record $3.5 billion profit for the last three months of 2006. At the end of March, Japan's capital...
...presidential race? What's next, a March issue about Christmas? Considering your dubious past success rate with prognostication-such as the seriousness of the Y2K problem and the prospects for Howard Dean's presidential bid-you should either leave the fortune telling to others or upgrade your crystal ball. Joe Frank Scottsdale, Arizona...
...believe the official statistics, these should be feel-good times in Western Europe. The economy is growing at its fastest pace since 2000, while inflation and interest rates remain low by historic standards and unemployment almost everywhere is falling. Try telling that to Marie Pereira. She sells Baccarat crystal in the fancy Bon Marché department store in Paris, and she's feeling anything but well off at the moment. "Basic things like food shopping are twice or even three times as expensive as before," she complains. "People have much less money at the moment, so they have...