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While average Americans are likely to view such machinations as far removed from their own lives, the world of high fashion is hardly divorced from the mainstream. A rarefied few may see designer runway shows in Paris and Milan, but the models who make an impression there secure editorial work at widely circulated magazines like Vogue and Marie Claire and eventually end up in images that pervade daily life, whether it's in a nationwide advertising campaign or as the host of a show...
...company in 1999. In May, four months after her noncompete clause expired, Sander returned to the fashion house she founded when she was just 24. With sales at Jil Sander flat in 2002, it was good news for Bertelli. TIME's Lauren Goldstein caught up with Sander at the Milan men's shows, where she was unveiling her first collection since coming home...
...first glance, few would have expected this democratization of fashion to blossom in a nation famed for buying sprees that hurtled every citizen toward stylistic conformity. After all, who can forget the Japanese tourists who thronged exclusive boutiques in Paris or Milan, all loading up on exactly the same must-have purse or belt? Or the platinum-haired, deeply tanned kogyaru look that painted Tokyo teens like a badly conceived Hawaiian Tropic advertisement? But Japan today boasts a diversity of expression unmatched anywhere in Asia. Years of recession have galvanized a generation of faceless students, salarymen and office ladies...
...that Abramovich "couldn't care less." Perhaps he should be conducting his own scrutiny of how his money has been spent since he bought the club. After airing a fantasy shopping list of new players - which included Arsenal's Thierry Henry and Patrick Viera, Juventus' Edgar Davids and Inter Milan's Christian Vieri - Chelsea has only snapped up a few B-listers at wildly inflated prices. Twenty-four million euros for Blackburn Rovers' Damien Duff? Now there's a deal that should be raising questions. - With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow Finding the Swede Spot It's hard to believe that...
...talking about drugs, either. Well, not exactly. The D word is carefully avoided by the nine friends who recently opened the PuraVida Shop in downtown Rome, even though most customers refer to their merchandise as "smart drugs." The store, along with similar "smart shops" recently opened in Milan and Bologna, gives Italy its first sniff of a quietly burgeoning Europe-wide market for all-natural, mostly herb-based substances that advertise an out-of-the-ordinary physical sensation without the ugly side effects of synthetic drugs. Both scientists and customers say it is a much softer experience than Jimi...