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Only one question remains: Will the miniskirt, the tattered hat and the hip-slung belt that Veruschka made famous return...
...Nike phenomenon is challenging Confucian-style deference to elders too. At the Nike shop in a ritzy Shanghai shopping mall, Zhen Zhiye, 22, a dental hygienist in a miniskirt, persuades her elderly aunt, who has worn only cheap sneakers that she says "make my feet stink," to drop $60 on a new pair. Zhen explains the "fragrant possibilities" of higher-quality shoes and chides her aunt for her dowdy ways. Her aunt settles on a cross trainer. For most of China's history, this exchange would have been unthinkable. "In our tradition, elders pass culture to youth," says researcher Zhang...
...predicting the future so difficult? After all, if history is just one damn thing after another, shouldn't the future be more of the same? But over and over again, even our most highly educated guesses go disastrously wrong. (Here's Coco Chanel on the miniskirt, in 1966: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming...
...late January, half a dozen students gathered at the institute's downtown Manhattan headquarters, a loft dominated by a lipstick red wall, a well-stocked bar and two sleepy Chihuahuas. The students were greeted by the school's co-founders, Lisa Clampitt, 39, a veteran matchmaker in a miniskirt and knee-high suede boots, and Jerome Chasques, 34, an amiable Frenchman with an international singles-events business. Nestling into black leather lounge chairs amid animal-print cushions, the students list their qualifications. Alayna Tagariello, 29, works in public relations and plays host to singles parties. Nelson Hitchcock, 35, an events...
Back in the audience before the film starts, there’s a debate whether a post-makeover Campbell, who works the overnight shift at a chain hotel in Newton, can wear her current outfit of pink crushed-velvet turtleneck and black miniskirt to work tonight. “My manager is okay with my cross-dressing, but I’d probably have to wear a regulation white blouse,” Campbell reflects...