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...doubts, LaHaye offers answers to one of the biggest questions ever posed: When will it end? Well, you will know the end has begun when the true believers in Christ vanish from the earth "in the twinkling of an eye" (I Corinthians 15: 52), leaving their Levi's in a rumple. The rest of us are "left behind"--and that's just where the series starts...
Jeans today can cost thousands of dollars and regularly sell for hundreds. Even Levi's can run you $300. Once the classic fallback answer for the daily question of what to wear, jeans now pose an even bigger question: Which ones? Stone washed, distressed, low rise, sanded, boiled, whiskered, shredded, patched, relaxed fit, straight leg, boot leg, flare or with personally customized finish? The notion that jeans are the color they have faded to is passe. At the Gap they have run from "blasted bluegrass" to "moonlight." Next season there will be 15 more hues (or "washes," as they...
...Levi's, initially caught with its pants down by the denim developments, is now making extremely limited-run jeans, mimicking those in its archive. One style, called Rose Bowl, is copied from a pair of 1933 jeans found at a Rose Bowl flea market. Another, Picket Sign, replicates a pair of '30s jeans down to the paint spatters. Some styles will have manufacturing runs of as few as 50 pairs. Both Levi's and Diesel have opened high-end specialized stores. Diesel will launder its $200 jeans free to maintain the color. New Levi's arrive every six to eight...
...prominent South American financier, during an investigation into alleged violations of a U.N. arms embargo; in Buenos Aires. Pending the decision of a federal justice, Cavallo faces formal charges for involvement in an early '90s conspiracy to smuggle $100 million worth of arms to Croatia and Ecuador. DIED. LEVI CELERIO, 91, prolific Philippine lyricist and composer who in 1997 was commended by President Fidel Ramos as a national artist of music and literature; in Quezon City. DIED. TONINO CERVI, 72, Italian film producer, screenwriter and director who aided the careers of Federico Fellini and Bernardo Bertolucci and won top honors...
...Kong creator Michael Lau, whose original, street-savvy figures have molded him into a hot icon among the most unlikely doll collectors imaginable: Tokyo's jaded, trend-setting twentysomethings. To reach that desirable market, Nike Japan featured Lau in a series of Presto shoe advertisements two years ago and Levi Strauss Japan quickly jumped on the bandwagon, using Lau to plug its Engineered Jeans line. Moreover, his appeal to the hip-hop generation seems global. His limited-edition plastic dolls have made it into toy collector shops in New York City and London. Young, cutting-edge international designers...