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Indeed, at Paris runway shows and Hollywood premieres, stars from Portman to Jennifer Connelly are turning up in Chloé's soft-flowing dresses, peasant skirts and chunky heeled boots. Her influence is spreading even to women who have to pay for their clothes. Not since Helmut Lang introduced superskinny stovepipe pants in the early 1990s has fashion seen such a radical shift in shape. And Philo is widely credited with loosening up the silhouette. "She has absolute precision in terms of being able to seize the fashion moment," says Claudine Barnabé, owner of Espionne, a trendy fashion boutique in Paris...
METROPOLIS 1927; FRITZ LANG...
...Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future-and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of CGI, his dark vision remains unsurpassed...
There are bigger spenders in educational philanthropy. California Industrialist Arnold Beckman, for example, recently gave $20 million to the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering for a new West Coast study center, raising his total gifts for 1985 to $72.5 million. But what makes Lang special is his passion for the personal growth of students. Five years ago, he handed over $6 million to his alma mater, Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia. It was the largest single gift ever received by that quintessential liberal arts college, where the 1,300 or so students are deeply imbued with the school's Quaker...
...most unusual gift, if not his largest, was a guarantee of college tuition for 61 pupils at P.S. 121. Lang was making a sentimental visit to his old school, and in the middle of what he recalls as a paralyzingly dull, rehearsed speech to the graduating sixth grade, the inspiration came to him. Suddenly he broke off and told the astounded youngsters that he would give them each $2,000 toward college tuition, with more where that came from, if they stuck with their books and finished school. Later he followed with a letter to every pupil, declaring "I will...