Word: fashionability
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...areas of advancing well-being, empowering children and preserving cultures. Alongside the Foundation is Karan's new retail concept, Urban Zen, where she sells a mix of her own creations and objects she has culled on trips around the world. Karan took some time out from New York fashion week to talk to Kate Betts about the mission behind her foundation and her drive to create a new philanthropic model...
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...making a difference in someone's life. And we don't just sell clothing, but also objects, jewelry, furniture, and lifestyle products. I think it's a new paradigm in retail because it's not about a season. The stuff we sell is timeless. It's not really fashion in that sense. It's clothes that feel really good that you can wear anywhere and for the rest of your life. A percentage of all the sales go to the Urban Zen foundation. (See Style & Design...
...deadlier than the Middle East for the fourth estate. Some 54 Asian journalists are languishing behind bars, says media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. Those disheartening statistics underline, however, the importance of Asia's newspapers as a check on the excesses of power - something that should never go out of fashion...
...Even when elements of the work on his walls found their way into his sketchbook, Saint Laurent drew a distinction between the two. "Yves and I were convinced that fashion is not an art, but fashion needs art to exist," Bergé says. And so, to keep Saint Laurent inspired, their collection grew into a mixture of styles and epochs. "Works that are on speaking terms with each other," is how Bergé explains it. "A blend. It is the quality of the blend that is important in a collection." And, as Yves Saint Laurent proved time and time again...