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...fiction is the creative process; it's more interesting to watch, say, Jackson Pollack empty a whiskey bottle than a tube of paint. But somehow, this gimmicky, bitchy, wonderful reality show pulled it off, by challenging a set of aspiring fashion designers to do things like make a garment out of products from a grocery store (the corn-husk dress won). Unlike so many reality game shows, Runway actually cast intelligent, interesting creative people interested in doing good work in their field rather than media whores out to become future Style channel hosts. If you missed the first season...
...Both sexes will find themselves catered to at Garment, tel: (49-40) 410 8403, where designers Kathrin M?ller and Ullinca Schr?der offer mod jumpsuits for women and razor-sharp trousers for men. At Hans Peter Reuker's eponymous boutique, tel: (49-40) 439 3256, body-hugging jackets and sweaters are the big menswear sellers, alongside flowing skirts and blouses for the ladies. Traditionalists can meanwhile satiate their appetite for British-style men's suits at Herr von Eden, tel: (49-40) 439 0057, or nip across to Recession by Marla, tel: (49-40) 1801 8970, which specializes in flapper fashions...
...students: if you happen to come across a young woman wearing a tight-fitting t-shirt with “Anatomy Tutor” suggestively emblazoned across the chest, don’t expect her to provide you with study tips for the upcoming midterm. Such garments are instead products of Abercrombie & Fitch’s “Attitude Tees” campaign. The company has designed other t-shirts with similarly daring slogans, like “Do I Make You Look Fat?,” “I’m Not With Stupid Anymore...
...professor in Princeton’s Religion department who was a graduate student when he met West 15 years ago. “Cornel West will be Cornel West whether he’s at Harvard, at Princeton, at Cambridge. He wears his institutions like a loose garment...
Cambridge’s popular vintage store, The Garment District, could easily be mistaken for a drag show dressing room. Or RuPaul’s closet. But a soap factory? Probably not. However, the warehouse-like store best known for its eccentric style and $1.50 per pound clothing is actually housed in a former soap factory. The walls have long since been covered in fuchsia paint and Led Zeppelin posters, but according to the store’s co-owner, Brooke Fletcher, the building is “the last of its kind...