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...cold, gray winter sky sags low over northern French town of Hem - a little over five miles east of the bustling city of Lille, but on a different socio-economic planet. While Lille's jobless rate of 10% is above the national average of 8.6% (in large part due to its sizeable university population), more than one in four of Hem's nearly 20,000 residents is out of work. Most of those live in the Hauts Champs/Longchamp neighborhood, a cluster of housing projects that crowds more than half of the town's residents into just...
...today, there is hope under Hem's gray clouds, kindled by goodwill, hard work, and a huge injection of funds aimed at bringing the town, like hundreds of other disenfranchised suburbs that exploded in rioting late in 2005, back to Planet France...
...have to open this place up, build and renovate housing worthy of that name, and break this segregation under which people who live here can't leave - and those who don't would never consider coming," says Hem's Socialist Mayer Francis Vercamer, once a resident of the Haut Champs slums. To effect that change, Vercamer has launched a $200 million project to revolutionize the area by razing larger, dehumanizing tower blocks and replacing them with hundreds of smaller apartment units and individual homes; refurbishing existing housing with the input and advice of their occupants; and creating commercial hubs...
...summer sewing camps and after-school classes for kids as young as 9. Some older newcomers are heading to chic urban sewing lounges for classes on making handbags, lingerie and cocktail dresses. Others are joining virtual sewing circles on the Internet, in which strangers exchange tips on the best hem styles and where to find inexpensive fabric. (Try Wal-Mart for prices starting at $6 a yard.) New books--such as Sew Subversive by the founders of Stitch Lounge in San Francisco and the upcoming S.E.W.: Sew Everything Workshop by Diana Rupp, due out next year--give step-by-step...
...Tahari had his own shop on East 53rd Street that catered to the disco crowd, and created two labels called Midnight Lady and Morning Lady. He peddled trends like handkerchief-hem dresses to the club crowd. In 1979, with disco losing its rhythm, he opened a shop on Madison Avenue and began selling suits with a trendy vibe, cashing in on the needs of working women...