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...those fabrics is like looking into fashion's crystal ball, especially if you are a designer like Prada, who is widely considered one of the most adventurous when it comes to how far she will push the textile mills in new directions. She loves to tell the story of kid mohair, a kind of plush, teddy-bear-like pile fabric that was considered completely uncommercial before she used it in a menswear collection for spring 2002. "I was forbidden to use it," she says with a laugh, "and of course, it became a best seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miuccia Prada's Material World | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

With Piaf as its subject, Olivier Dahan's new film La Môme (The Kid), titled La Vie en Rose in some countries, was virtually assured success. In the first week following its Feb. 14 release, the film attracted over 1.5 million viewers - 400,000 more than the 2001 smash hit Amélie pulled in its first week. The towering billboards are an appropriate symbol of Piaf's cultural legacy. She may have measured a mere 1.47 m, but the full-scale Piaf revival Dahan's film has inspired shows that, decades after her death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Shadow of a French Chanteuse | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Many Quakers feel their faith does not fit within traditional Christian categories of Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant, but is an expression of another way of experiencing God.” I want my free growler! Dear Attractive Girl in My English Section, Look at me, dammit. Sincerely, ????? Hey kid at the Advocate who was dancing with a broom all night: I really respect that. To people who ask questions in lecture, Do not waste everyone’s time on something you didn’t hear or understand completely. Your learning is not more important than other people?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holler! | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...went through a period of depression last year,” she says. “Especially before coming to college. Literally, I was seeing a psychologist and psychiatrist hardcore. I felt like I had no motivation to play on the team.”She also experienced the kid-in-the-candy-store effect that afflicts some homeschoolers entering college.“Freshman year I was the biggest partier ever,” she says. “I just went crazy. I was so restrained and constricted to nothing but tennis and school. Everything was strict when...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In a class of their own | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

eRecruiting, variously dubbed “selling your soul” or simply “insane,” is just part of being a Harvard kid. It is extremely competitive—but the eye-rolling, head-shaking on-lookers have misdirected their scorn. It’s the students themselves who choose to make the process what...

Author: By Melissa Quino mccreery | Title: The eRitual | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

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