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Twenty minutes down a dusty unpaved road, about 30 miles east of Arusha, past Masai herdsmen in traditional dress, is the guarded entrance to the mines. Ahead, teams of donkeys are carrying drinking water to the miners. At a glance, you can take in the entire four-mile stretch where the tanzanite is buried in maddening folds deep below the earth's surface. It's hard to get an exact fix on how much is there?geologists recently updated their models and project a 15-year supply. Of course, it depends on all sorts of variables. Whether the biggest companies...
...Depending on how you think about it, those disks can look like sequins or coins. Either way, for a department store, that's an apt association. But Kaplicky, a soft-spoken man with a very sober disposition, likes to cite another, very unsober inspiration, a Paco Rabanne "chain-link" dress from the 1960s. Disco fashion as the point of departure for a sizable building? Take that, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...
...come on a regular basis to check out the inventory, pick out a few favorites and have them delivered to their homes. Lindner takes care of hemming and other minor alterations, and if you can't decide which creation to rent, she'll take photos of you in the dresses that you like so you can make your decision later. "Last year there was a stretch of about two weeks of events where I probably dropped $40,000 in dresses," says Tatiana Platt, an Internet executive and a Wardrobe fan. "It was ridiculous." With Wardrobe, Platt can supplement her well...
...York City, a gaggle of fashion editors flocked to a Seventh Avenue studio to sip piccolos of sparkling wine and collectively rhapsodize over a new clothing collection by Patrick Robinson for Target. "I want to order a few things," one editor blithely declared while admiring a rakish pleated dress with chocolate medallion print that will sell for $34.99 when it arrives in stores in May. Her Astrakhan coat and patent-leather boots might have been wildly expensive, but few?not even style arbiters?can resist the allure of fast fashion...
...fashion repertoires. The site's 4,000 members from 51 countries post photos of their outfits, then receive comments from other users?compliments, advice or queries about where to buy pieces in a look. "There's a wonderful confidence of people posting pictures and saying 'This is how I dress,'" Ceria says. While each style is unique, many members have one universal brand in their closet: the reasonably priced H&M. "I'm all for being able to have some practical use out of this," Ceria says...