Word: mod
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...Amidst the highly contrasted trends on runways-from girlish mod mini-dresses to sexy '80s-style corsets-two things are certain: the dress is the most important item of the season and tailoring is not in fashion. "I don't know why, but it is not about tailoring," said Miuccia Prada, sitting in her spare office on the Via Bergamo. "Perhaps it's because young people are just not into that...
...lose touch ..." his voice trails off, and he shrugs. Stefano probably would have hated the opening of the new Diesel store on London's Bond Street in May. The two-level store on a prime corner is a template for the new Diesel. Curvy leather seating and mod decorative resin dividers are part of the sophisticated décor. The layout says designer rather than jeans. At the party, Diesel had paid actress Heather Graham to model a denim mermaid number for the tabloids, and guards shooed guests away from a roped-off VIP area?effectively aping just the sort...
...want to understand the strange realities of Iraq's escalating civil war, consider the predicament of the 2nd Brigade of the Iraqi Army's 6th Division. The troops live at Old MoD, a fortified base that sits right on Baghdad's sectarian fault line. To the east is Shi'ite-majority Sadr City, the sprawling slum that is the stronghold of the Mahdi Army, the militia blamed for much of the sectarian killings in Baghdad; to the north is Adhamiya, the mostly Sunni neighborhood where insurgents and terrorists are known to frequently hide out. At night soldiers in Old MoD...
...foot, launching midnight raids - it is not nearly as aggressive in Sadr City, where an uneasy accommodation has been reached with the Mahdi Army. "There's some sensitivity when going into Sadr City for an offensive operation," says Lieut. Colonel Paul Finken, the top U.S. advisor at Old MoD. "There's an added focus so as not to go in there and screw stuff...
...Tina Turner. I am not on “thirtysomething.“ Skinny jeans are an anachronism I do not deserve and would not do justice. I put the jeans down sadly, full of the knowledge that I can never have the thighs or the white mod sunglasses of Ms. Moss or Mlle. Miller. I am not that awesome and I am not that English. Nor do I work at the Papercut Zine Library, which is the only other excuse for buying these pants. Until my next voluntary colonoscopy, I must abstain, but not without regret. THREE FORM-FITTING...