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...belts from such hot young designers as Jill Stuart, Cynthia Rowley and the Morrissey Edmiston team. Stuart's new Ultrasuede "Fonda" dress is long gone from the racks of L.A.'s Fred Segal. But the material doesn't say retro to all. "The feel is casual elegance," explains handbag designer Kate Spade. "I don't look at my bags and think Rhoda...
...being exploited in order to offer Americans consumer-quality goods at bargain prices [NATION, June 17]. We have to ask ourselves, Can we willingly sacrifice these children so we may benefit? Can we let ourselves be seduced by department-store sale signs, knowing that an inexpensive shirt, soccer ball, handbag or rug is making a child elsewhere pay a huge price? It is high time both companies and consumers here realize their double standard and start to change their attitude toward the Third World. KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN Coconut Creek, Florida...
...American style Calvin epitomizes," notes Valerie Steele, a professor at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology, Klein's alma mater. Indeed, his spare-chic ethos is reflected in the work of everyone from superstars like Donna Karan, Michael Kors and Miuccia Prada to up-and-comers like handbag designer Kate Spade. More significantly, it is the bedrock of the no-fuss aesthetic peddled by the Gap, J. Crew and Banana Republic, increasingly the purveyors of the American uniform...
...Since the Galleria came in, there has been a lot of trouble," says longtime East Cambridge resident Charlie Watson, who lives on nearby Cambridge Street. "This used to be the safest part of the city. Now there are break-ins and handbag snatches...
...first, the desert island scenario is played for laughs; as Bishop complains of hunger, Phyllis pulls a huge butcher-knife from her handbag, with the instruction: "Go cut the arm off that nun." But as mother and son gradually realize that they are not going to be rescued, they begin to drift towards insanity--Bishop, neurotic and stuttering from the start, talks obsessively about Katherine Hepburn, while Phyllis clings to her vanity about clothes and make-up in order to fend off the horrible truth...