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...electorate's real concerns: what these candidates stand for, what's behind the arcane nomination process and what issues are going unaddressed." Barrett deals with those concerns every week, but he still relishes the carnival. Since his trusty suitcase let him down, Barrett has made do with a bedraggled garment bag "that doesn't quite fit into either the overhead bin or the space beneath the seat." It should at least see him through this week's Illinois primary...
...Europe, where, in all its checkered permutations (black, blue, green, red or purple on white), it is almost as ubiquitous among the young as fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral and lost some of its freshness. But the current televised spectacle of kaffiyeh-wearing rebels playing hob with the Israeli army gives the scarves...
Karl Spilhaus shops with a mission. His busy hands rake through the winter- coat racks, expertly fingering the fabric as he examines the labels and checks the prices. When Spilhaus senses a swindle, he purchases the suspicious garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...
Lacroix's casual panache is what draws many young clients. Picart says many may buy only one outfit, and it may be a gift from a relative. The house does a big wedding business. In fact, Lacroix's first garment under his own logo was for the marriage of Pia de Brantes, a well-connected Paris publicist. What she got was a bright pink snap-together gown: the skirt and sleeves came off after the solemnities to reveal a hot little disco number...
...after he shaped a floundering garment workshop into a flourishing business, Bu Xinsheng of southern Zhejiang province was hailed in the Chinese press as a "trailblazing entrepreneur." His Haiyan plant became an obligatory stop for visiting bureaucrats and journalists...