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Karl Lagerfeld is used to being imitated. "Chanel called it flattery," he shrugs. "For me, it's good because it pushes me to things they can't copy." By Chanel, he means Coco, the founder of the label Lagerfeld has headed for 22 years. "They" are spry fashion chains such...
That’s not to say that Mallozzi is a simple person. From the very beginning of her life, she’s had to grapple with the frustration of an unclear cultural identity. Mallozzi grew up in rural Ohio as the child of a Chinese-born mother and...
A longtime Bangkok resident myself, I find the author too charitable at times. Is the city's Chatpetch Tower really a "post-modernist pastiche" of the ubiquitous Greco-Roman style? Or is it just rubbish, like so much urban Thai architecture? Sometimes, too, the urge to be exhaustive is just...
Karl Lagerfeld is used to being imitated. "Chanel called it flattery," he shrugs. "For me, it's good because it pushes me to things they can't copy." By Chanel, he means Coco, the founder of the label Lagerfeld has headed for 22 years. "They" are the fashion chains, whose...
A rare and exotic species has found its way to Houston of late. Known in other cities as pedestrians, the carless creatures are suddenly appearing along a vibrant 7 1/2-mile stretch of the city, thanks in large part to Houston's new light-rail system. Any new visitor to the...