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...covering his shoes in fish scales. Another, more successful idea was embedding hydrangea petals in a clear silicone heel. He even tapped into the recycling trend with his "trash" shoes, which incorporated old métro tickets and café receipts in the heels. "He looks at everything," says his close friend Diane von Furstenberg. "His shoes are like sculptures, objects, jewels." But Louboutin knows that women's most desired treasures are the ones they can wear...
...When my friend Duncan gave me his confirmation pendant with an engraving of the Virgin Mary, I looked at it through my loupe and offered him $210. He was greatly impressed. "If this was high school, that would be gone," he said. Apparently Duncan had some pressing cash needs in high school that he chose not to expound upon. But even amid the recession, Duncan took his necklace back, happier with it than he'd ever been. "I feel like my dad was validated for all those years of telling me to hold on to my medal," he said...
...want a friend, buy a dog. Those words are most often attributed to the corporate raider Carl Icahn in the mid-1980s and were later immortalized by the character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street. But given today's hostile environment for even conservative investments like munis and mortgages, you too may be muttering the phrase--right...
...personal experience with his own psychological immune system that first inspired Gilbert to pursue this area of research. Around 1993, after experiencing a divorce, a falling out with his best friend, and the deaths of a parent and a mentor, Gilbert felt surprisingly okay—certainly better than he would have imagined. He shared this realization with friend and colleague Tim Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. The observation resonated with Wilson and the two decided to futher explore this phenomenon, sparking the years of research that would lead to “Stumbling...
Last year, I saw a friend of mine wearing a really nice outfit, clearly dressed up for an occasion. When I asked what he was doing, he kind of dodged the question. It turns out my guy friends had a bet to see how many of them could get with prefrosh girls...