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Yamamoto agreed to collaborate with Adidas last year, impressed, he says, by the functionalism of sportswear design, and by the way the brand's three-stripes motif has endured for more than 50 years. Using those stripes as his muse, he has fused his own choice of fabrics and colors to Adidas' technical expertise. The result should put a bounce in any fashionista's step...
...Noted "I was the muse. The name The Girl from Ipanema only exists because I exist." HELO PINHEIRO, 54-year-old Brazilian who inspired the 1962 jazz anthem, defending her right to use the name for her jewelry store...
There have been good book surveys of California art, led off more than 20 years ago by Peter Plagens' "Sunshine Muse." But until now no institution has taken on the daunting task of mounting an exhibition that surveys the visual culture of California in relation to a century's worth of social changes in that huge, dynamic and almost crazily heterodox state. That is what the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has tried to do in a mammoth show that opened last month: "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000." It involves some 800 works...
...however, add a footnote. As fall approached, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, the irascible and slightly infamous patriarch of the Kennedy clan, called me up to muse a bit about that hot summer (Berlin Wall, Khrushchev blasts at the Vienna Summit). The conversation went something like this: "I tell you, Hugh, Jack is the luckiest guy I know. He could fall into a pile of manure and come up smelling like a rose. The Bay of Pigs and the other things were the best lessons he could have gotten and he got them all early. He knows now what will work...
...SOMALIA Kidnapped A convoy of foreign aid workers was caught up in factional fighting in northern Mogadishu as they left the compound of the humanitarian agency Médecins sans Frontières. Supporters of warlord Muse Sudi Yalahow captured nine, along with two local workers, and held them hostage. Fighting then broke out between factions in Muse Sudi's group. U.N. negotiators obtained the release of seven foreign workers and two Somalis...