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...final (and certain) passage by March 3. When the law to forbid Muslim head scarves, Jewish yarmulkes, "excessively oversized" Christian crucifixes and perhaps Sikh turbans was initially approved this month, Education Minister Luc Ferry promised it would stop "classrooms from being divided up into militant religious communities." Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin...
...devices Bertolucci uses is intercutting many scenes of the three of them with the movies that inspired the scene, such as the three of them racing through the Louvre attempting to beat the time set in Bande à Part (Band Of Outsiders), or mimicking the classic streetwalk of Jean Seabourg in Breathless. These are obviously devices more geared to movie dorks like myself; if seeing a clip from Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller’s 1963 opus, brings a smile of recognition to your lips, there are at least some pleasures in this flick...
When Caroline Calvin arrived at Levi's more than a decade ago, she took on one of the most rugged challenges in the fashion industry: updating the 501 jean...
...company that birthed the first jean took note of Calvin when she developed a dark, rigid denim finish inspired by vintage styles. Calvin, then 28, with no formal design training, began creating innovative finishes for the San Francisco--based Levi's in 1990. By the time she became the company's U.S. creative director in 2001, she had reinvigorated the brand throughout Europe by blending its rich heritage with a young, sexy edge. "Caroline knows how to take something old and modernize it into something no one's ever seen before," says Tony Carnot of Swift Denim in New York...
...common practice, and company insiders say Arnault had no qualms about it. Through a complex holding structure, the family owns 65% of the voting rights and 48% of the capital of LVMH. With Delphine, the family has three of the 16 board seats; Bernard Arnault's father Jean, 83, is the third. If Delphine can prove herself, she could be well placed to succeed her father one day. But Dad's only 54 and shows no sign of relinquishing power to anyone. --By Peter Gumbel