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...technology to create limited-edition pieces that are almost as expensive as a work of art. Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière cut old-fashioned floral-printed radzimir, the heavy silk once used for mourning garments, with a laser and then bonded it with the flexible, breathable high-tech fabric commonly found in extreme-sports apparel. The dresses will retail for $7,000. At Roger Vivier, a pair of chiffon-and-leather sandals, braided and painted by hand, will ring in at $4,000--and only three pairs will be made. "Where is the luxury if you see things everywhere?" asks...
...passion unparalleled anywhere else in Asia. The enmity between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, the teams respectively of the city's West and East Bengali populations, mirrors the Catholic-Protestant sectarianism of Glasgow's Celtic versus Rangers. It stretches back before Indian independence and is embedded into the very fabric of Kolkata society. Prices for prawn and hilsa, the preferred seafood of each community, fluctuate depending on the results of the clubs' matches. An entire canon of Bengali films, plays and poems surrounds the eight-decade-old rivalry, as if all of Kolkata lives in the shadow of these football...
...baron was nursing an obsession with all the possible uses of a crop that was then being planted throughout post-Depression America. The gala guests that night were served only soy-based food, and Ford regularly tried to incorporate the pulse into cars, using it for everything from upholstery fabric to experimental paneling. What Ford saw in the hardy, adaptable beans was industrial potential, and over 70 years later, his vision has come to pass. Today, soy shows up in about 75% of the food on offer at the supermarket, from chocolate to margarine, and the industry responsible...
...many, the word batik conjures up visions of Asian-themed restaurants or ASEAN summits. To Obin, the fabric means glamour. It means stunning models sashaying down the catwalk to the music of James Brown. It suggests beautiful people and exclusive parties. How else could it be for this 52-year-old fashion designer, who is single-handedly responsible for dragging the ancient Indonesian craft into the arena of contemporary fashion...
Other popular destinations for spring included Rome, with Vera Wang excavating ideas from the city's ancient polycultural society and translating them into toga-like dresses, and Bali, where Diane von Furstenberg found bold floral prints. Japan--specifically its traditional folded-and-dyed fabric-printing technique, shibori--turned up on the runways of designers like Narciso Rodriguez, Proenza Schouler and Thakoon Panichgul...