Word: fashionability
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...elegant old colonial home tucked into a back lane in south Mumbai, a fashion party is in full swing. Fey young men in low-slung jeans, willowy models in backless silk dresses and other well turned-out, well traveled Mumbaikars laugh, air-kiss and dance into the night...
...dazzled and forget for a moment that India's markets, like those around the globe, are in the throes of financial turmoil. But even here, worries are starting to surface. Mumbai is India's financial capital, but it's also the center of the country's booming fashion industry and contemporary-arts community. Those three worlds feed each other here, just as they do in London, Tokyo and New York. As the markets plunge - the main Mumbai index, the Sensex, is down 36% since January - many of Mumbai's wealthy financiers are beginning to spend less in the city...
...While many Harvard students are interested in business, there’s a small contingent that is bringing their entrepreneurial skills to the runway. Mr. Livingston is only one of a group of student designers who are looking for success in the fashion industry while juggling the normal commitments of Harvard student life...
...York, Houston, and Tokyo and has been featured of the pages of The New York Times Magazine, Nylon, and GQ Spain. Also of note are Noor Iqbal ’10 and Vicky D. Sung ’10 who, like Mr. Livingston, are newcomers to the Harvard fashion scene. Their t-shirt line, Port & Kit, launched in the spring of last year...
...friend from Shanghai leaned over to share her shameful secret: "I watched some of the Olympics," she said, in a tone of voice implying that this was a transgression akin to sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend or - even worse in this fashion-crazed city - toting an obviously knock-off handbag. For months, many citizens of China's most populous city gritted their teeth as Beijing got all the glory. But now that the Olympics are over, Shanghai is determined to reclaim the title of China's most happening metropolis. Just four days after the Summer Games' closing ceremony...