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Time to dust off the art-history books. For fall, designers have taken inspiration from early 20th century Vienna. Led by the famous Wiener Werkstätte, the Vienna design scene flourished with bold, graphic patterns often in black and white. Today the look is reborn in Andrew Gn's collection of clutches for Leiber and Dior's dazzling diamond-encrusted watch. At Proenza Schouler, models looked as though they had traveled back through time, swaddled in lush fur collars and cloche hats. On the home front, Baker's furniture line by Laura Kirar echoes the lines of Josef Hoffman...
...that Mellon herself has exploited this asset, maintained through rigorous daily workouts. She is the brand's best model, the jet-setter seen on the red carpet and at all the best parties who looks spectacularly good in her Jimmy Choos, and has always believed that legions of women?famous or not?would want what she wants...
...SCION OF A CAR-racing family and the first Brit to win the World Rally Championship road race, Colin McRae was famous for his ability to walk away from peril. Aggressive and flamboyant, he was dubbed "McCrash" for his rolls, wrecks and wins in such competitions as the X Games, the Paris-to-Dakar rally and the Race of Champions. But there were no survivors last weekend when the helicopter that McRae was piloting crashed near his home in Lanark, Scotland. McRae, his son Johnny, 5, and two others died in the blaze. McRae...
...Godfather of Soul over a half-century. In the early '50s, the singer helped secure the release of a young Brown from a Georgia youth detention center, invited him to join his gospel band and began to shape the future funk king's sound. As collaborators in the Famous Flames, the band that launched Brown, the pair co-wrote tunes, including Brown's signature Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine. On the recording, Byrd sings the recurring riff, "Get on up." He was 73 and had cancer...
...brand-new airport terminal designed by Norman Foster is scheduled to open in early 2008. Half a million volunteers are being trained to answer visitors' questions--about one for every foreign tourist expected to show up. Government officials say some 4 million Beijing residents have received English-language lessons. Famous for aloofness and droll irony, the city's people have been getting training in other areas too in the hope that they will curb their spitting, erratic driving, incessant littering and inability to form an orderly line...