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...started incorporating techno-fabrics like nylon and carbon into more traditional weaves, giving them a lighter hand or a three-dimensional quality. They pushed the boundaries, often employing far-out materials like rubber and plastic. More recently, Alexander McQueen has expressed a ghostly romantic vibe with fine spiderweb netting. Francisco Costa has been playing with perforated latex and stretch scuba at Calvin Klein. And at Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld reintroduced the idea of rubber, pleating it around evening columns like a sci-fi mummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miuccia Prada's Material World | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...simply stupid,” Graysmith says, referring to his lack of prudence when dealing with the Zodiac Killer. But Graysmith was not a police inspector or a crime reporter like the other three men focused on the case; he was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who liked going to the library and solving encrypted messages. When the threats became more aggressive, he learned to take, well, minor precautions. “I would open my door with my foot because you know, it gets to you a little bit,” he recounts...

Author: By Jessica O. Matthews, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Zodiac’ Author Reveals True Story Behind Film | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...before extending his pudgy fingers to whoever was standing nearest. So we called it an engagement party.A bewildering series of events converged to make this engagement party possible. My brother and his fiancé somehow got an extra two weeks off from their non-stop theater jobs in San Francisco, allowing them to come home that weekend. My job at Loyola New Orleans delayed its orientation retreat until August 14th, a few weeks later than normal. Everyone we knew from miles around happened to have the day free—my friends were leaving the next day for study abroad...

Author: By Bob Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Engagement Party | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

When fashion journalist Melissa Ceria moved from New York City to San Francisco two years ago, she carried with her a vision: to launch the concept of personal style at a new level. Last September she created ShareYourLook.com which gives men and women a virtual venue to explore and expand their fashion repertoires. The site's 4,000 members from 51 countries post photos of their outfits, then receive comments from other users?compliments, advice or queries about where to buy pieces in a look. "There's a wonderful confidence of people posting pictures and saying 'This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCENE: Style Gurus Go Virtual | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...manager of a string of porn houses all over the West. At the end of the screening, he said, "It looks like a porn film. But it's not. It's just what I'm looking for." So it ran in this theater in San Francisco for the better part of a year. The papers started to review it. People started coming in large groups. Pretty soon, theaters were coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with D.A. Pennebaker | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

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