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SHANGHAI Shanghai Tang's tote ($365) pays homage to another era in the city's history...
...border of funky Los Feliz and trendy Silver Lake, far from the chic boutiques of Hollywood. Housed in what was originally a print shop, it has a decidedly non-L.A. vibe, with salvage-yard furniture, exposed-brick walls and beamed ceilings that create a Depression-era backdrop. Featured brands include a mix of big names like Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander and new American collections from Patrik Ervell and Tim Hamilton. "Most of them are up-and-coming designers," Urbinati says, "but that's not why I buy them. I buy what I love." This season the owners summon...
...idea behind Victoire De Castellane's brilliant new high-jewelry collection for Dior Joaillerie?called Kings and Queens?is that jewelry outlasts its wearer. Taking inspiration from the opulent Baroque era, de Castellane sculpted one-of-a-kind rings and brooches in the form of skulls and lavished them with crowns and collars of elaborately cut and set diamonds. Each colorful skull is crafted from a single stone, from purple sugilite and charoite to pink opal and blue chalcedony. The 10 queen rings and 10 king brooches have diamonds in a variety of cuts set in platinum with an ancient...
...Arts and Sciences Information Technology will pull the plug on dial-up Internet, a fitting death knell for an outdated technology. Though around 15 percent of Americans continue to use phone lines and chattering modems to bring e-mail and the World Wide Web into their homes, the era of dial-up is long gone. Its reign as the Internet conduit for the masses was, like most technologies in the Information Age, brief...
...probably all my generation’s time. My grandparents fondly tell me of an age when the political climate wasn’t characterized by hysterical soundbite-sized protests and “patriotic” bashing of public officials. Perhaps, once upon a time, such an erudite era did exist. In any case, I can’t speak to that part of the past...