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...employed four directors for the project, giving each total artistic freedom. Hence, Steven Pimlott's modern-dress Richard II is followed by Michael Attenborough's period Henry IVs and Edward Hall's guns-and-missiles Henry V. Then it's back to robes and swords as Michael Boyd completes the cycle with Henry VIs and Richard III. While it is a jolt to finish, say, Richard II with his successor Henry IV in a business suit and then to start the next play with Henry suddenly in medieval garb, the different approaches demonstrate the works' universality...
...public occasions and sometimes in private, too, members of the Meiji Elite discarded their traditional dress, once modeled after the undergarments of Tang dynasty Chinese robes, and began to wear European army uniforms, morning coats, ball gowns and top hats. Courtiers and other grandees adopted European-style aristocratic titles. Rococo, neo-Renaissance and neoclassicist buildings were erected. Concerts of European classical music were performed. A Prussian-style constitution was promulgated, a British-style navy built, a French-style bureaucracy developed and the Emperor, whose forebears had dedicated themselves to culture and ritual in the palatial seclusion of Kyoto, was boosted...
Juliette Zinwue still remembers her excitement when the men came to her village in southern Benin, West Africa, three years ago. "They said they would take me to work in Abidjan, and they paid my parents," she says, angelic-looking in her slightly tattered, short cotton dress, which is black with bold pink and red flowers. "There were a lot of children going. I wanted to go with them. We came to Abidjan in a car. I was excited to be going somewhere in a car." But the adventure soon became a nightmare. Put to work in the home...
...Miss Universe competition May 11--though she may get some piercing stares from the other contestants in Puerto Rico. The blond 18-year-old from Haifa, a soldier in the Israeli army, plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. The silk animal-print dress, shown here on Levy, is covered with an Israeli army-issue flak jacket embroidered with diamonds and pearls for a "softer look." The designer wants to send a message that everyday life should go on despite the latest outbreaks of violence in the Middle East. Levi has created similar Miss...
...gave her Americanized versions of French designs, clean lined, in the bright, solid colors she preferred, but with oversize buttons and coat pockets that his Hollywood experience told him would stand out in photographs. She also patronized American clothiers who made licensed copies of French fashions. The red wool dress she wore for her television tour of the White House in 1962 was a line-for-line replica of a Marc Bohan dress for Dior. All the while, she continued to buy the occasional real thing from France. Even the pink suit she wore on the final day in Dallas...