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McQueen's clothes were as profanely original as his language. Most famous for his bumster pants, which took low-rise jeans to a whole new low, he combined a gothic, almost romantic sensibility with a robust dose of street attitude. He was a master cutter, structuring garments to change the shape of the body, accentuating what he found sexiest. "There are very few real designers who have a craft, which is to say a sense of cut, proportion and tailoring," fellow British designer Paul Smith said in 2001. "Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander McQueen: Fashion Mourns an Icon | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...marketing professor at Waseda University's business school in Tokyo. Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan, says Toyota's managers don't understand how sensitive the American public is to auto-safety issues. "Their focus on the customer has been nonexistent," he says. "Toyota is famous for having an arrogant culture. They're so used to dealing with successes that when they have a problem, they're not sure how to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Troubles at Toyota | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...Would you consider yourself famous?” one student asks...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Budding Freshman Author Aims to Inspire | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...state Gates is 'this immensely famous expert on race' - you really have to be kidding me? Famous for what? Expert why and says...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Officer Fired Over Racist BlackBerry Rant | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

Comebacks can be tough - even when you are famous enough to be known only by your initials. So it has been this week in Paris, where France's best-known contemporary philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy - or BHL, as he is universally known - has been trying to explain how he was hoodwinked by a fictional character he had taken for a great thinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A French Philosopher Duped by a Fictional Character | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

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