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...apartments each take up a whole floor and have in common temperature-controlled concrete floors and pure linen bedding, along with white Havaiana flip-flops and crisp waffle robes for lounging in style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design for Living | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...camp." His natural levity masks the loneliness and vulnerability he felt in the barracks. But ultimately it was poetry, rather than humor, that gave Wong a means of working through the frustrations driving him, at times, to a suicidal state of mind. "It helped me wash my dirty linen in public," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merlion Heart | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

...wear extremely unflattering suits made out of what seems to be long swathes of cobalt fabric. Despite a judgmental American public that seems to favor women of the Laura Bush ilk (heck, even Hillary is showing cleavage on the presidential trail while also wearing an endless string of peach linen pants suits, the likes of which I have never seen in any store), Janet Reno, the daughter of humorless Dutch immigrants, stuck to her guns and kept on wearing really long jackets with no lapels. You’ve got to admire it. It’s a style that...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Iconoclastic! | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...their tables, Martha Stewart and Charlie Rose jockeyed for camera time behind a box-hedge where entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport had set up some lights. There were very few details left unattended to, from the perfectly cooked pink lamb chop main course to the black-edged white linen dinner napkins that matched the runway theme. And little details tell the tale. Because beyond all of his branding and focus, it's nailing the little things that has gotten Ralph Lauren, 40 years after he started, to the top of the heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saturday in the Park with Ralph Lauren | 9/9/2007 | See Source »

...years ago when Ford Motor Co. unveiled its taco-faced disaster, the Edsel--the name dropped off the list altogether, never to return. A quick check of demographic records suggests that a convention of Americans first-named Edsel could be held in a hotel linen closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edsel Agonistes | 9/7/2007 | See Source »

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