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...just traveled halfway around the world, and that garment bag you've been lugging feels like a Buick on your back. You arrive at your posh hotel, and an overly costumed valet grabs the bag, carries it all of 50 yards to reception and bids you good day. You are expected to cough up a tip. And you might not see your belongings again for another half an hour while the bag makes its way to your room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road with Andy Cosslett | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...show, which highlights the so-called “Azn” subculture of predominantly Asian-American suburban communities. The “Chinatowns” segment, directed by Gunawan, explores the lives of ordinary people living in American Chinatowns. “Nathan and I went to the Garment District to look for clothes, and we’d ask ourselves questions like, ‘Is this something your 80-year-old grandma would wear?’” Lee says. “We’re trying to look at a community besides...

Author: By Alexandra A Mushegian, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Model Minority: ‘Identities’ Takes Runway | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...expectations for a substantial movie are dashed when the screen cuts to Conway whining out a bed-top soliloquy. Here, we see the film for the Malkovich-a-thon it really is. Malkovich delivers a glib tour-de-force in which no fake accent is left unspoken, nor effeminate garment or cosmetic unworn. The radical variation in behavior is meant to highlight how little both Conway and his rubes knew of Kubrick, but it overtakes all other aspects of the film. Malkovich’s extreme performance almost redeems the film, but ultimately only convinces us of the film?...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Color Me Kubrick | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...Most of the children who grow up in Tam Binh orphanage go straight into the workforce after leaving school, a fact of life the orphanage recognizes. Tam Binh has 10 sewing machines to train teenagers in job skills (garment and shoe factories abound in Vietnam and garments are the country's second-largest-earning export behind crude oil). "Some of them go to work in factories. But some of them have even become teachers." And then Trung says, "Those who are not as clever, they can be street vendors - it's like all others in a society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Visit to Pax's Orphanage | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...kids since 2004. However, her Oscar frock was brilliant. Kidman got a lot of criticism for her Balenciaga couture creation, but personally I thought it was exceptional. I loved the fit of the dress and I thought the bow was a perfect accoutrement to a rather severally geometric garment. Also it was really red.MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Usually, I unequivocally hate what Maggie Gyllenhaal wears. She falls victim to things that I would never even be tempted to try, like Heidi braids or white t-shirts without a bra. Her Oscar dress, however—a dark blue Proenza Schouler with ostrich...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revisiting Oscars Fashion, Whether I Like It Or Not | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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