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...much lunchtime staples as meat pies; school children take classes in Japanese; and Asian approaches to well-being, from feng shui to Chinese medicine, have found ready acceptance in well-heeled suburbs. Now, it's the turn of the fashion business. The designers behind some of the country's hottest young labels may call Australia home, but all share Asian roots and pay homage to them in distinctively Eastern designs. The new Asian wave in Australian clothing includes: BOWIE (bowie.com.au): If Bowie Wong's elaborate creations in satin and fine wool strike you as theatrical, that's no coincidence...
...Japanese market: Japan's consumers spend more money on luxury goods than anyone else in the world, and they account for a monster portion of revenue, 25% to 30%, for both companies. Coach had total sales of $1.32 billion last fiscal year, LVMH $16.18 billion. Coach often tests its hottest designs in Japan. After shoppers responded well to the Signature Collection in 2001, for instance, the company increased production of those bags in Japan...
...much lunchtime staples as meat pies; school children take classes in Japanese; and Asian approaches to well-being, from feng shui to Chinese medicine, have found ready acceptance in well-heeled suburbs. Now, it's the turn of the fashion business. The designers behind some of the country's hottest young labels may call Australia home, but all share Asian roots and pay homage to them in distinctively Eastern designs. The new Asian wave in Australian clothing includes...
Despite this commercial abundance, some of the hottest tickets are for productions at the subsidized National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company. Both suffered cutbacks when their Arts Council grants were announced this spring, and the National's director, Peter Hall, temporarily closed his experimental Cottesloe stage. Some critics wondered if there might be a connection between the dispute and productions that have endorsed leftist views or attacked the conservatism of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The National's Pravda, for example, seems to say that the worst sin of Fleet Street is generosity toward Thatcher. The R.S.C.'s Today...
There was, take your seats please, actual convention business as well, and the hottest topic of the general sessions was international terrorism. In her keynote address at Royal Albert Hall, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke angrily of a newly "fashionable heresy," that "if you feel sufficiently strongly about some particular issue, be it nuclear weapons, racial discrimination or animal liberation, you are entitled to claim superiority to the law and are therefore absolved." Thatcher argued that terrorists were increasingly active, in part, because news attention encouraged them. The P.M. told the lawyers, to repeated applause, that reporters should voluntarily refrain...