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...hadn't hoped for much. Since it's a trunk show of songs from the 80s ska group Madness, and since it's about a young man who splits in two to see whether he'd turned out right if he went bad, the show could have been a mix of the amateur ABBA show "Mamma Mia" and London's longest-running bad musical, "Blood Brothers" (15 years and it hasn't had the grace to close). But the Tim Firth book weaves the songs smartly around a cleverly developed situation, and director Matthew Warchus moves the dense human traffic...
...baroque furniture?mingle a more prosaic product: Takizawa's imaginative take on Lee jeans and Champion sweatshirts. "For too long, fashion was something people could look at but couldn't imagine wearing," says Takizawa, whose collaboration with the decidedly unglamorous American clothing companies debuted this spring. "I wanted to mix the street and art and create something totally...
...forces with Adidas to sell a new line of sportswear, tagged Y-3. This month, Puma will showcase its latest sneaker collaboration with Yasuhiro Mihara, Japan's version of a younger, spikier Manolo Blahnik. Ironically, the decision of these high-fashion designers to come down from their ateliers and mix with the skateboard set is less their own than the imperative of the one sector of Japan's lackluster economy that's still spending: the nation's youngsters. "Like it or not, we are defined by our youth culture," says Mihara, himself sporting a Grateful Dead T shirt...
...Such a mix-and-match attitude, Takizawa believes, is particularly suited to Japan. In places like Paris, high fashion is a luxury earned through maturity. But in Tokyo, it's a birthright. Gaggles of young women live at home, piling up enormous disposable incomes that make them the one bright spot in an otherwise moribund economy. With even high-school girls able to afford a Louis Vuitton handbag, the cachet of haute couture is rapidly wearing off. "People in Japan no longer feel they have to prove they're rich by wearing expensive labels," says Takizawa, who himself rarely wears...
...including Vornado Realty and Health Care Properties. He likes junk-bond mutual funds, including Columbia High Yield and Northeast Investors. He also favors short-maturity bond funds (which yield just north of 1%) like Vanguard Short-Term Bond. Bank CDs are another alternative to money-market funds. Keep a mix of CDs that come due in three, six, 12 and 18 months. You can get 2% on a three-year CD, but you'll run the risk of locking in a historically low yield just as yields--and total returns on dividend-paying stocks--start to rise...