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WHEN DESIGNER Ivana Omazic, 32, decided to leave home in the former Yugoslavia to study fashion in Milan, it was a very emotional decision. ?The war made it very difficult to leave my family,? she says. But she had known since age 5 that clothes would be her career, so she went to study at the European Institute of Design in Milan. In 1998, Omazic landed a job working for Miuccia Prada, which is when she learned to marry high-tech fabrics with feminine shapes. After seven years at Prada, Omazic was named creative director of Céline...
...same American soprano who got booed at Milan's La Scala a few years ago went to Paris recently to receive the Légion d'Honneur. After recording three new albums - the jazz-inspired Haunted Heart, the Strauss opera Daphne and a collection of sacred songs - Renée Fleming, 46, spoke with Time's Terry McCarthy about practicing in front of the mirror and learning to sing in Elvish. You have a Christmas album? Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc. Only now it's called a sacred collection. My father was a choral master...
...same American soprano who got booed at Milan's La Scala a few years ago went to Paris this month to receive the Légion d'Honneur. After recording three new albums--the jazz-inspired Haunted Heart, the Strauss opera Daphne and a collection of sacred songs--Renée Fleming, 46, spoke with TIME's Terry McCarthy about practicing in front of the mirror and learning to sing in Elvish...
...Like the view of Shanghai, many of Delano's China photographs, on exhibit in November at La Triennale di Milano Museum in Milan, Italy, use the tools of the darkroom to make a familiar scene eerie or allegorical. Delano shoots in black and white, but he prints in black and gray. His photos look as if they've been rubbed with charcoal and might smudge if touched. The China he depicts is a somber, worn, dusty place, often devoid of the hopeful gleam it wears on billboards, state TV?and in real life. Few of the people pictured smile...
...musing on the workings of communist ideology, Czech writer Milan Kundera notes about what he calls the two tears of kitsch. ?The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass. The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse...