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MADRID The antifur lobby is virtually nonexistent in Spain, so designers are scoring with fox, sheared mink and textured leathers like Ferragamo's embossed calfskin jacket, above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxury's A List: What's Selling Globally | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

What of Orzolek's and Joy's new It girl status? Says Joy: "I ring up my mum and say, 'They're calling Karen a fashion icon, and she's got a fake mink hanging around her neck with button eyes!' It's stupid stuff." --By George Epaminondas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6. Christian Joy | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

...pharmaceutical sales representative in Omaha, Neb., has a 2-year-old daughter and says many of her friends have also had children later in life. "We have great jobs, own a home and have no debt," says Kilton, who spent $200 on a Christmas dress trimmed in mink with matching fur shoe clips and headband for her daughter, who wore the outfit once before it was tucked away in a cedar chest for safekeeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spending It All on the Kids | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...Bekins says the store's sales in its first month were "phenomenal," and they have only improved, with June being her "best month ever." T shirts retailing for $20 and dresses for $100 are being snapped up faster than Bekins can reorder them. She says one customer purchased a mink-edged sweater and skirt for $170 and then returned to buy a matching outfit for her younger child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spending It All on the Kids | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

DIED. PATSY MINK, 74, Hawaii's irrepressibly liberal Democrat and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress; of viral pneumonia. Mink opposed the Vietnam War and championed gender equality. After 24 years in the House, she had just sailed through a primary vote--one week before her death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 7, 2002 | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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