Word: lacing
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...Pornthip Nakhirunkanok wore a Rapee creation when she was crowned Miss Universe in 1988 and came back 14 years later when it was time to say "I do." Hand-stitched Thai-silk wedding gowns start from about $720. But you can treble that for dresses involving acres of imported lace and intricate embroidery. "If the bride has a clear idea of what she wants, I can make her dream come true," says Rapee designer and director, Benja Suthivanit. "But I also have to see if her dream matches her body." In other words, bring your dream?but don't expect...
...deeply religious Shia Muslim, Zaki bears the mark of the devout - the top of his forehead, just below his lace prayer cap, is darkened from repeated rubbing on the ground. Piety is the key to his influence over the extended household: with the exception of Muntaha, all the adult women wear traditional Islamic clothing, complete with tightly drawn headscarves. Even the token portrait of the president on the living room wall depicts Saddam deep in prayer...
...lobby of the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., a mannequin models timeless military fashion: black beret, battle-dress uniform and lace-up boots. But elsewhere within the 50-year-old cinder-block buildings, plans are afoot to clothe the future warrior--and perhaps us--in the stuff of science fiction...
Nineteenth century psychiatrists coined a term for the irresistible impulse to swipe: they called it kleptomania, from the Greek kleptein, to steal. It was applied after the fact to Jane Austen's aunt, who was tried in 1800 for pocketing fancy white lace. By the 1920s Freudian psychologists, always attuned to underlying sexual drives, were comparing the rush from a successful filch to the pleasure of an orgasm. Experts today are more inclined to compare recreational larceny to thrill-seeking behaviors like bungee jumping or to addictions like drug abuse or compulsive gambling...
...public. Rosenthal, 60, is famous for creating a pavement of tiny stones that enables subtle color gradations on a flower petal or insect wing. Some pieces are almost grotesquely large, some tiny and delicate. (The cheapest retails for around $1,000.) Diamond "strings" are twisted into snowflakes or lace fans. There's a (brooch-size) horse's head, a zebra with ostrich plumes and a sinister sheep with sapphire eyes. François Curiel, head of Christie's Europe, which sponsored the show, says the "chicness" of a high-society gathering is now measured in the number of JAR jewels...