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...SaVanh: Koi carp ponds, opium beds and mammoth buddha heads combine to make Bar SaVanh, tel: (60-3) 2697 1180, the slickest place along Jalan Doraisamy for aperitifs. Soak up the booze with tasty tidbits from CoChine, the Indo-Chinese restaurant upstairs...
...Turkish restaurant is decorated with hookahs and Turkey's famed Iznik tiles. The signature "Swooning Imam Beside Eggplant" dish comes with pita bread baked on the premises. An added bonus: in the evenings, erudite owner Fatima Chan holds forth on Ottoman art. tel: (60-3) 2694 9724 Bar SaVanh: Koi carp ponds, opium beds and mammoth buddha heads combine to make Bar SaVanh the slickest place along Jalan Doraisamy for aperitifs. Soak up the booze with tasty tidbits from CoChine, the Indo-Chinese restaurant upstairs. tel: (60-3) 2697 1180 La Bodega: Yearning for tapas and fat Monte Cristo cigars...
...mixers. In New York City, Stone Rose boasts martinis made with a mix of Beefeater's Wet gin and Glaceau Power-C Vitaminwater, while Sumile features the Eric Mason 50/50, which combines vodka, yuzu lemonade and oolong tea. Atlanta's Inman Park Patio has an herbal-green-tea martini. Koi in Los Angeles offers a cocktail with rice liquor, green tea (again) and Midori. And for the soy conscious, Fly Bar in San Francisco serves the 5-0--a mix of sake, soy milk and pineapple juice. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Vintage is penetrating the racks in less obvious ways as well. Innovative designers such as Koi Suwannagate are "re-purposing" used apparel and fabrics--from 1920s silk slips to '60s men's sweaters--to create new collections. And major designers--like Prada, whose printed circle skirts for spring are unabashedly reminiscent of the '50s--are more overtly drawing on bygone decades for inspiration. The result of all this is that the past is now an inextricable part of present fashion--on the runway, on the red carpet and on the rack. What's old is new, and what...
...just what Lorraine Kirke is doing at her new, shabby-chic-style boutique, Geminola, in the West Village in New York City, where she sells her color-saturated, redyed-satin vintage concoctions along with select fashionista staples like Rogan jeans and C&C California T shirts. In Los Angeles, Koi Suwannagate, 35, sends "pickers" to yard sales to dig up old cashmere sweaters, which she cuts up and then resews into one-of-a-kind creations. "I look at it like an art piece," says Suwannagate, whose prices ($800 to $1,700 for a sweater) reflect intense workmanship--two days...