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...economy may be dreary, but the fashion forecast remains bright. Last season's monochromatic gray trend is fast fading from memory as orange emerges to punch up summer wardrobes. The sunny hue first appeared on Miuccia Prada's fall 2007 runway, and then Raf Simons picked it up for his spring 2008 collection for Jil Sander. Now orange is turning up on everything from Pucci's new sunglass collection to Furla's braided-handle tote and Louis Vuitton's modernist cuff. And on an elaborate gown at Dior's haute couture show, the hue oozed regal glamour. In the home...
Today Marimekko casually thwarts a fashion system that decrees that if your not-so-stylish cousin in the burbs wears it then it's not cool enough for trendsetters like Manolo Blahnik or Anna Sui. Yet both designers are proudly part of a global club known as the Marimekkoites. Sui has been collecting vintage examples of the cheerful prints for years, and this spring Blahnik has created three shoe styles in Marimekko prints. H&M has launched a capsule collection this month featuring the most popular patterns from the 1950s to the 1970s. "Marimekko feels so modern," says Blahnik...
...company that was struggling as a result of postwar shortages. Ratia was determined to set about turning the scarcity of fine fabrics, caused by postwar rationing, into an advantage by hiring designers to create inexpensive screen-printed cottons emboldened with color and exuberant pattern. That May, Ratia staged a fashion show at Helsinki's smartest restaurant, Kalastajatorppa, with the aim of showing women what they could do with the company's dazzling new fabrics by the yard. When women also clamored for the ready-made pieces they'd just seen, a fashion phenomenon, as well as a fabric house...
...public were riled by administrative actions.“The behavior shows a complete and utter lapse of professional standards,” said Elizabeth H. Dionne, a parent of four children in the district. “He should have accessed them in an above-board and honest fashion.” Dionne said she sent e-mails that she thought were only read by the school committee during the time of secret administrative access, and had encouraged other parents to write e-mails as well.“I did so with the explicit understanding that these were...
...personal secretary, responsible for everything from deciding who gets to see Benedict, to keeping His Holiness on schedule, to discreetly handing him his papal reading glasses just before a homily or other public discourse. While he is the paradigm of discretion, others have taken liberties with his image. Fashion designer Donatella Versace said her Spring 2007 collection was inspired by Gnswein, confessing: "I was thinking of an austere, severe and ethical man. I find Father Georg's austerity very elegant...