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Everyone knows you can get a cheap suit in Bangkok. But how about a puffy frock à la Christian Lacroix, or a floor-length silk robe that looks like a find from a Parisian vintage shop? Bangkok has been undergoing a fashion renaissance - but most travelers still don't realize it's home to a coterie[an error occurred while processing this directive] of young, forward-minded designers who are happy to whip up specially tailored creations. Here are three addresses certain to please any style hound hungering for something unique. ENLEVER SES VETEMENTS: Despite its name (take off their...
...using this example, not to illustrate the demerits of the educational system in Rhode Island, but instead to describe how utterly bewildered I am by the ankle boot phenomenon. I actually can’t wrap my small, pea-like brain around them. When ankle boots showed up at fashion shows, I figured that they were one of those ironic things—like assless chaps—that appear in a sardonic, only-Prince-would-ever-wear-them-out-of-the-house way. When the Olsen twins started wearing ankle boots, I suspected that Mary-Kate and Ashley were...
...Please Feed the Models Columnist Belinda Luscombe addressed the decision of the organizers of the Madrid fashion shows to bar from the runways any model who falls below a certain weight [Oct. 2]. ?Viva España! ?Viva Madrid! I have never met a man or woman who thinks those gaunt and pathetically unappealing models, who look like something from the worst of the World War II POW camps, do anything for clothes, fashion or themselves. It's time we objected to the twisted concepts of the fashion-industry nitwits. Louis C. Kleber Las Vegas...
...CHEF BRAVO, WEDNESDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. The long knives come out inSeason 2 of this competition from the makers of Project Runway. Last spring's edition proved that food preparation can be as telegenic as dress design--what is haute cuisine but fashion that you can eat? With a new, better host (model and cookbook author Padma Lakshmi) and new challenges (this week a lightning sushi round), Top Chef makes food entertaining without dumbing it down, not unlike a good Vegas restaurant. Don't watch on an empty stomach...
...Cardinal (15:52.289), but trailed Stanford by just 0.17 seconds after the first half of the race. Stanford rowed a blazing last two miles to nip both Harvard and the USRowing entry, which finished third with a time of 15:52.862. The Thunderbird Rowing Club took first in dominant fashion, outpacing the field by 14 seconds with a time of 15:38.135. Navy’s four finished third amongst college crews and seventh overall in 16:21.225.“This is a really good gauge for us,” said Kaiser of the fall?...