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...fashion deliver more than the momentary adrenaline rush that comes with scoring the "it" handbag? Can it make a lasting impression? Designers are under such intense pressure these days to produce commercial merchandise or sign their names to fast-fashion emporiums like H&M and Target that they seem to have forgotten about one of fashion's vital mandates: fantasy...
...joke at my expense," says Bacon. "And I thought it would go away." It didn't. So at Sundance this year, Bacon put the game to use by launching a website, Sixdegrees.org which accepts donations for stars' favorite charities. "Instead of seeing what a celebrity's favorite handbag is, you can see what they really care about," he says. Sixdegrees will also auction off stars' Sundance freebies on eBay. Never have Parker Posey's Ugg boots been put to such good...
...some of China's manufacturers of textiles and other low-end merchandise. The annual trade fair in Guangzhou, a city at the vanguard of China's march toward capitalism over the past two decades, was overcrowded as usual last October with prospective foreign buyers of toys, clothing, shoes and handbags. But there was a difference, say businessmen who attended. "A lot of purchasers came to negotiate, but they didn't want to pay the higher prices," says Zhen Dahui, an executive for an umbrella-and-handbag manufacturer in China's Fujian province, complaining that his firm did fewer deals than...
...Give ‘em hell Al!” Marc Jacobs tote, and you’re ready to combat global warming, one carbon emitting clothing company at a time. 3. Miranda Priestly’s Dennis Basso black mink coat and Prada handbag, “The Devil Wears Prada”: Every girl needs at least one PETA-offending outfit. 4. Borat Sagdiyev’s Brigitewear thong swimsuit, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”: Kidding! 5. Olive Hoover’s brontosaurus t-shirt...
...websites, propaganda, history books, blogs, even pop songs. The goal is to teach kids to be discerning consumers of information and to research, formulate and defend their own views, says Stroud, who is founder and principal of the four-year-old public school, which is located in a repurposed handbag factory...