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Julio Vargas sits quietly in a small gray house in Red Springs, North Carolina, making notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
...Paulo Melim Andersson, 34, formerly design director of the popular Italian label Marni. Melim Andersson has big shoes to fill: under Philo's direction, Chloé became one of fashion's hottest brands, spurring mile-long wait lists for such must-have items as the Betty handbag and chunky stack-heel boots. Melim Andersson's first collection for Chloé will debut in Paris in March...
...Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip, three rockets went thudding into empty fields in Israel. Nobody was hurt, but it was a sign that once again, the Palestinian authorities can make all the promises they want, but they cannot bring Gaza?s armed militant groups to heel...
Broken stiletto heel while strutting down Broadway? Cat fights at the designer discount outlet? Harvard alumna Claire S. Sulmers ’03 has been through it all and lived to tell about it in her blog “The Fashion Bomb,” accessible through her personal website, clairesulmers.com...
...give up my principles on a moment’s notice, yet unable to individuate myself from the consumerist herd? Yes and Yes. But I already knew I was like that. Anyway, this time around, ankle boots are much more tolerable, and more like a significantly sturdier high-heel. They are generally being shown with skirts as opposed to pants. If they are shown with pants, the pants must be skinny and tuck into the boots themselves. Kate Moss is excellent at wearing ankle boots tucked into pants. I have always admitted she is a very talented woman. Unfortunately, however...