Word: mohair
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...Belgian designer Raf Simons registered this change most notably with his pared-down Jil Sander collection of strict capes and coats worn over stovepipe-slim black pants. Miuccia Prada also turned her back on traditional notions of luxury, replacing last year's opulent long-haired furs with shaggy mohair coats and matted-wool twinsets. Even designers who are not minimalists at heart, like Donatella Versace, toned it down with classic black and gray coats and suits punctuated with an occasional flash of turquoise or tomato...
...fabrics is like looking into fashion's crystal ball, especially if you are a designer like Prada, who is widely considered one of the most adventurous when it comes to how far she will push the textile mills in new directions. She loves to tell the story of kid mohair, a kind of plush, teddy-bear-like pile fabric that was considered completely uncommercial before she used it in a menswear collection for spring 2002. "I was forbidden to use it," she says with a laugh, "and of course, it became a best seller...
...other works include a portable “Inflatable Museum” that she and Han Yu ’06 co-designed, created, and curated last February, as well as an “interactive fabric” she crafted last year from mohair and electroluminescent wire that lights up when touched...
...you’re in need of some mindless action-adventure fun, Sahara will do. So relax—buy yourself a big bucket of popcorn, sit back in your mohair-covered theater seat, marvel at all the shiny, expensive speedboats blowing up, and forget all about that six page response paper due Monday...
Kerry followed through in smaller ways too, giving speech after speech about the laughable mohair subsidies that created virtually no jobs and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year. Hollings, who endorsed Kerry before the primary in his home state of South Carolina, admits that conservatives in his state are mystified that he's backing Kerry over a fellow Southerner like John Edwards, "They say, 'Wait a minute, Fritz. You're for that Massachusetts liberal?' I say that liberal-conservative stuff is just the Republican spin. Bill Clinton was a liberal, and he put our budget back...