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Prada's penchant for mixing luxurious traditional fabrics with new high-tech fibers has been consistent over the past decade, but from season to season, her eye will veer from very traditional fabrics like duchess satin to something unconventional like the novelty fabrics she used in the early 1990s when mills were introducing technology from the athletic-wear industry. But in Prada's hands even those fabrics were not used in a traditional way: nylon replaced leather for bags; it became shiny, luxurious and embroidered for evening coats; or it was woven with purer yarns like cashmere to give...
Apart from technology, fashion operates on the fastest creative cycle in any business. For that reason creative types in almost every other industry keep an eye on what's happening in fashion. And so for every trend that comes down the runway, there are hundreds of trend forecasters pouncing on the next hot color, texture, fabric, shape or shoe. For spring you may already know that silver is ubiquitous in handbags and shoes and that the silhouette veers between a replicant look best realized by Nicolas Ghesquičre at Balenciaga and an overtly romantic vision put forth by Alexander McQueen...
...knew all that. So did everyone else in the room. But no amount of head-shaking or eye-rolling or friendly reminders about all the other jobs out there was going to stop us from collectively submitting 14,900 eRecruiting applications (so far) for summer internships alone. Just as we all applied to Harvard in spite of all the other “good” schools out there, we’re bound to apply to McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs in spite of all the other “good” jobs out there...
eRecruiting, variously dubbed “selling your soul” or simply “insane,” is just part of being a Harvard kid. It is extremely competitive—but the eye-rolling, head-shaking on-lookers have misdirected their scorn. It’s the students themselves who choose to make the process what...
...precise strength of the U.S. economy appears to be in the eye of the beholder. But on Tuesday Wall Street made clear that it sees trouble ahead - at least...