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...anniversary of Dior's birth, started with two black stallions and a turn-of-the-century carriage that deposited a glorious Edwardian vision in gray tulle onto the runway. The audience was treated to a fashion history lesson, the postwar full-skirted New Look that put Dior on the map giving way to a series of 1950s-style debutante gowns and finally a parade of Hollywood-inspired entrancemakers - all deconstructed to look like works in process and thus demonstrate the skills of the ateliers. There were lessons to be learned at Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel show, too. He presided over...
Investigators are also looking into whether Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's top operative in Iraq, may have helped supply explosives for the London bombers. Meanwhile, a U.S. intelligence source tells TIME that last Friday a Pakistani was detained outside London at Stansted Airport, allegedly with a map of the Underground system and the three bombed train stations circled. A British official confirmed that a Pakistani had been arrested but said there was no known connection between the event at Stansted and the bombings. A source close to the interrogation of Abu-Faraj al-Libbi, a Libyan arrested...
...Photos: London Carnage • Map: The Bombings • Question of the Week • TIME Collection: al-Qaeda • Photos: A New Blitz
...Photos: London's mass transit system suffers four new blasts • Map: The July 21 attacks
...face was a map to his soul. The inherent contradictions of the man, whose gift for empathy was matched by his brutal determination to keep the Union together, are what make him one of the most edifying subjects to study in all of U.S. history. Three years ago, TIME began the Making of America series. Each year around the Fourth of July it features a major American figure who helped shaped the nation. We began with explorers Lewis and Clark, then focused on Ben Franklin and last year chose Thomas Jefferson. This year we decided to dedicate an issue...