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...couldn’t take my wife, I’d take Jude Law—he’s a pretty handsome dude, and he looks like he could party...for my outfit, I’d go to the Garment District; you can put together an outfit there that looks like [it came through] a time machine...I’d wear powder-blue Pumas, the Samuel L. Jackson suit from Pulp Fiction...and a blue tie to match the shoes...
...effects, no catch-me-quick fruit basket. Christ's face is isolated against a dark background, as if to say that resurrection has not lifted the burden of his ministry. Bearded, older looking than in the London picture, he blesses the bread with a restrained hand. His blue-green garment is keyed to the picture's muted brown palette. This is what we mean by late Caravaggio, made under the shadow of his worsening predicaments. Yet in Naples, he produced astonishing canvases like his Crucifixion of St. Andrew. The saint is shown at the moment of his miraculous death, when...
...business home, Chanin has helped boost the local economy. About 200 contract employees now hand make each piece. "One dress took 16 women three weeks to make," says Chanin, 43. "We might make one coat only 20 times. That means there are only 20 in the world, and each garment is handmade by someone different." That rarefied notion has splashed Project Alabama across the pages of Vogue, Elle and the New York Times and onto the racks of high-end retailers like Barneys and Jeffrey in New York. "We haven't invented anything new," explains Chanin about pieces that retail...
...manipulates its currency to keep it undervalued against the U.S. dollar, thereby making its exports cheaper than Bangladesh's. But even if its currency rose against the dollar, China would still have tremendous advantages, as shown by data compiled in an International Monetary Fund working paper. The average Chinese garment-industry worker was paid $1,600 in 2001, more than double his Indian counterpart's wage and four times the money earned by the Bangladeshi. Despite the higher pay, the study found, the Chinese worker's productivity was significantly higher, adding $5,000 a year in value to the garments...
South Asian nations may yet get a reprieve if the U.S. textile industry persuades Washington to restrict clothing imports from China for a few more years. Several Asian governments are lobbying the U.S. as well. Without special treatment, garment industries in countries like Nepal are likely to become a free-trade casualty. Says exporter Pokhrel: "Death is the only prediction we can make." --With reporting by Chaim Estulin/Hong Kong, Yubaraj Ghimire/Kathmandu, Ghulam Hasnain/Karachi, Saleem Samad/ Dhaka and Lasantha Wickrematunge/Colombo...