Word: glamoured
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DESIGNER Hong Kong's Barney Cheng "He respects women, making them comfortable with glamour...
...Cannes did have one film with the true scent of romantic obsession: Yonfan's Peony Pavilion. Again we meet two women who forge a deep friendship, and a man who tests that bond. This film, though, is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The moving camera, the gorgeous homes and gardens of Suzhou, the handsome people with complex urges?they all seem to swoon in the telling of a story about Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian...
Going on a book tour is pure glamour, right? Not so fast. For many authors, book tours are a blur of hotels and bookstores at warp speed. Maybe that's why literary America is loosening its tie and letting its hair down. Best-selling memoirist Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) is becoming famous for appearances that are close to performance art. At one point he brought two dermatologists on stage to explain itching and scratching...
Though comparisons are being drawn, the Blake-Bakley case is not quite the O.J. Simpson saga. The glamour quotient is low, and no high-speed white Ford Bronco chase has hypnotized the nation. Last week the police were only calling Blake a witness, though they have not ruled him out as a suspect. They dusted him for gunpowder traces the night of the crime and found none. Still, there is some incredulity at the split-second timing of events in the tale he tells...
...curb. As the door opens, a flock of Japanese photographers (mostly male) and reporters (mostly female) gathers around the sassy blonde passenger, dressed in stripes and wearing sneaker-styled stilettos. This is not Kate Moss or Gwyneth Paltrow. This is Emer Paul, fashion editor of U.K. Glamour. "Can we get your picture please?" someone asks. Before she can reply, the photographers begin snapping - zooming in for close-ups of her bag, sunglasses and shoes, always the shoes. "My shirt is Martin Margiela, my skirt is Miu Miu," she recites without prompting. "Who makes your shoes?" someone asks...