Word: fabricate
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...bright pastels and floral prints, is based on belted trench coats, with adjustable straps. She also plans a line of enameled flower pins that can be sprinkled on the bags "like fridge magnets. I think it's important to be able to personalize things," she says, gesturing toward the fabric flowers and Hello Kittys strewn around her office. "Accessories are an emotional thing, about having fun. No woman really needs a new handbag. It's all about expressing yourself." --By Lisa McLaughlin
...Mademoiselle in the early 1990s, Spade found little on the market that lived up to her mother's collection. So in 1993 Spade began sketching boxy totes in her Manhattan loft and buying burlap for her bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like a nice girl,'" Spade recalls. "'You don't want to get into the business. Settle down.'" Instead, Spade rocketed into the fashion elite, as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman began selling her nylon totes. She soon opened her own boutiques...
...Asian fashion landscape for 2004 can be summed up in one word, it would be "contrast" - bracing combinations of color and fabric, tradition and innovation. A recent fashion week in Hong Kong saw one model strutting down the catwalk in a sheer hot pink scarf with gray suit lapels stitched on to form a faux collar (a design by And Then ...); another in a knit cap festooned with baby toys (Aeju); and a third in a thick knit-wool skirt with a filmy, bright turquoise silk top (Tell U What). While most of the madness will stay on the runway...
...week of change and protest in France. In the days after the National Assembly endorsed a ban on Islamic head scarves and other "ostensibly religious" symbols in public schools, Muslims nationwide marched in anger - and France began confronting this fact: that outlawing a piece of fabric is easy; but inviting Muslims into the life of the republic much harder. Twenty-four hours after lawmakers waved through that bill, they came under renewed fire. Decked out in traditional black gowns and ruffled white collars, thousands of lawyers and judges descended on the Parliament and local legislatures, chanting: "Justice nowhere, police everywhere...
...simultaneously we have too many of our people who have internalized their own oppression. They’re having babies in their teens, they’re dropping out of school. They’re not deferring gratification. All those elements combined with a few more devastate the economic fabric of a community. And we can’t wait for Abraham Lincoln to come riding down the street on a white horse to save us anymore,” he says...