Word: fabricate
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...craft her own fashions. She has recently taken to purchasing vintage skirts from thrift stores and embellishing them with images she has either photographed or created on her computer. She prints them on transfer paper and, with a household iron, customizes the skirts by applying the images to the fabric. "I love the creativity without the pressure of worrying about what's in style," she marvels. "I'm my own arbiter of what's fashionable...
OPENED. THE GATES, 7,500 saffron-colored fabric panels hanging from 4.9-m.-tall portals along 37 km. of walkway in Central Park; in New York City. The brainchild of duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the public art installation took 26 years of planning and $20 million to execute, but will be remarkably short-lived: The Gates come down...
...granted to working Americans. Apparently, the freedom of faceless institutions is more important to some than the freedom of individuals. We must ask ourselves which side we are on. And ultimately, we must come to recognize union rights for what they really are: a basic thread running through the fabric of a free society. If employers keep pulling away at it, the rest of our freedoms might just unravel...
...page from Urban Outfitters. She padded her mattress with a feather bedcover and vibrant pink and orange sheets. A canopy of sheets and lantern lights partitions her bed from her common room, perfect for privacy. Her pride and joy, though, is the headboard, which she constructed by wrapping fabric and cardboard around the bed’s metal frame...
Eleta's tactics are instructive. Step One: P&G chose to focus its marketing dollars on just 12 of its 300 brands: Always feminine products; Bounty; Charmin toilet paper; Crest; Dawn dishwashing cleaner; Downy fabric softener; Gain and Tide laundry detergents; Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders and Pantene shampoos; and Pampers. Why not, say, P&G's Iams pet-food line? Median household income for Hispanics is $33,000, compared with $48,000 for the non-Hispanic population; P&G's market research found that relative to the general population, Hispanics tended to spend less on their pets...