Word: karle
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...Which Bush Administration official turned out to be journalist Robert Novak's primary source in the Valerie Plame leak? A Karl Rove...
...least on the runway—is finding its Harvard niche. Indeed, students are making a career modeling at Harvard shows—some already on their fourth or fifth appearance on a runway—and amateur designers are making a career designing for shows throughout the year. Karl, Marc, move aside. The producers of Haute’s show were Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 and Abigail M. Baird ’08, both of the fashion-oriented Harvard Vestis Council. Baird’s main inspiration for the show was the Montreal...
...Litvinenko was buried as he had lived, in a storm. There was rain, hail and a tornado near Highgate Cemetery in north London on the day his lead-lined coffin was lowered into a plot a few yards from that of another dissident who had sought refuge in Britain, Karl Marx. Before the burial, there was a memorial service at a mosque. Several close friends said Litvinenko had converted to Islam a few days before he died, in a kind of atonement for atrocities Russia (and perhaps Litvinenko himself) had committed in Chechnya, although another doubted any conversion had taken...
...while working for Paris' Comédie Française that Chemirik learned about "the effect of jewels from a distance." After making necklaces for Karl Lagerfeld at Chloé, he designed "Marie Antoinette--like wedding dresses" in Dubai and returned to Paris to join the interior-design team at Ralph Lauren. Chemirik then left and paid a jeweler to teach him his craft. He spent 10 years designing necklaces for Chanel; next, he created prototypes for Tom Ford at Yves Saint Laurent...
Alas, brand loyalty is short lived. Once Karl Lagerfeld has seduced a girl, Chanel can hope to keep her for life. At Bonpoint, customers grow up and move on, so every 10 years the company must attract new ones. That is where the Cohens excelled. "I always insisted that we have someone in the studio with a baby in her arms," says Marie-France. In 1993 she hired Domitille Brion as a studio designer. "My jeunesse," Marie-France says whenever she refers to Brion, who is now an independent consultant. Together, over 10 years they honed the key codes that...