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Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's self-portraits are now reproduced on boxes, bags and chairs, but she can never be entirely domesticated?her painful images still belong to her, and still have the power to shock. See them at "Frida Kahlo," a retrospective of nearly 90 works at London's Tate Modern until Oct. 9 (tel: [44-20] 7887 8008; www.tate.org.uk). Her work has been labeled socialist, feminist and Surrealist?but she defied every pigeonhole. What is certain is that her life played like a soap opera: at 18 she was horribly injured in a bus crash...
...Frida Giannini Shoe-In She possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet...
...Frida Giannini SHOE...
...possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet-and-leather Pelham bags...
Well, it's true that Broadway's newest Tevye, Alfred Molina (painter Diego Rivera in the movie Frida), is of Spanish-Italian heritage. And most of his daughters (and his wife Golde, played by Randy Graff) look like any other Broadway babies on the stage of the mammoth Minskoff Theatre. British director David Leveaux, moreover, has removed or toned down much of the shtetl shtick that has become identified with the show, the sort of thing that has kept Hadassah theater groups happy for decades. But that's no reason to dismiss a striking Broadway revival that manages to shake...