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...spring 2005 collection for Burberry, designer Christopher Bailey drew inspiration from an English classic: blue-and-white Wedgwood ceramics. The French fabric company Pierre Frey recently introduced Hong Kong, a toile depicting its namesake city, including skyscrapers and traffic jams. And the Glasgow-based design firm Timorous Beasties' toile honors the company's hometown with a tableau of familiar local spots...
...thought it would be great to do a toile that showed scenes of now--what people are doing in an urban environment, what they look like--but to do it as beautifully as possible," says Paul Simmons, 37, one of Timorous Beasties' designers. From afar, Glasgow Toile is a lovely wash of red on white. But step closer and it's not so pretty. In one scene, a junkie uses drugs in a graveyard--"the moral tale being if you shoot up, you will literally end up in a graveyard," says Simmons...
Nine months ago, in a desperate and poorly conceived attempt to get as far away from Harvard as possible, I left for a semester abroad at the University of Glasgow. Ever the optimist, I was half-hoping to be the first person to thoroughly despise his study abroad experience. And I was definitely headed in that direction. That is, until I joined the University of Glasgow American football team at the behest of its outgoing and rather portly president. Over the next nine months I would play for both my university team and the city?...
...pound center who brought his gorgeous blond boyfriend to every team social event. There was a former Iowan schoolboy football star whose penchant for career ending hits was equaled only by his pathological desire for sex (which he sought from the lovely ladies of certain Glasgow neighborhoods), an NFL Europe veteran who’d played for the Chicago bears, a British sprinting champion and the best quarterback in Britain, whose 22-stone (308 pound) frame could not mask his awesome physical talent and acumen for the game...
...after twenty-one years of searching, I had finally found my calling, and even though I only got to live it for nine months, I’ll go to my grave talking about my American football experience in Glasgow. My only regret is that life now pales in comparison to my days of gridiron glory, and I often find myself dreaming about making one more diving touchdown catch or gazing one final time upon that groupie who looked sort of like the second-string linebacker...