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Except for a brief moment in the '70s when avocado was the color to wear, green has always been a tough sell. But over the past few months, the shunned shade has shown up everywhere from Julianne Moore's Yves Saint Laurent Oscar dress and matching Boucheron earrings to Hershey's new green Chocolate Syrup. "We're seeing it across the entire marketplace and at every price point," says Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute...
DIED. CECILE DE BRUNHOFF, 99, who invented the tale of Babar the elephant, which her husband, writer-painter Jean de Brunhoff, and later her son Laurent, turned into the famous, internationally beloved series of illustrated children's books, which now number close to 50; in Paris. To calm her sons Laurent and Mathieu one night in 1930 when the latter was ill, she told the story of an orphaned elephant who flees the jungle and winds up in a big city much like Paris...
...Twice a year the fashion houses in Paris and Milan compete for press attention, bragging rights and the dollars of store buyers around the world. Though the lines between the two capitals have blurred - Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford design for houses in both cities; French label Yves Saint Laurent is now run by the Italian Gucci Group, which is owned by the French company PPR - arguing about which city puts on the best shows remains a favorite parlor game of the fashion set. For the last 10 years, Milan has been winning, as Italian houses like Prada and Gucci...
...which was broken up in 1991. Shaky Peace IVORY COAST Sixteen of the 41 members of the new cabinet stayed away from its first meeting, dashing hopes that the installation of the French-brokered power-sharing government would end six months of fighting between the administration of President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel groups. The main opposition group, called the Rally for Republicans, and three rebel factions that control the country's north and parts of the west, said that security concerns prevented them from traveling to the capital, Yamoussoukro. Nuclear Fears NORTH KOREA Tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program remained...
There isn't one. New styles for the classic American bag fueled sales growth of 20% between 2001 and 2002 for Coach, and the company is promising logo bags and hats to keep customers (and Wall Street) happy in 2003. Gucci Group's Yves Saint Laurent is succeeding thanks to a new designer - Tom Ford - a host of new stores, and a new brand image...