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Latin culture has joined hip-hop as a muse to the major players in fashion. Perry Ellis International announced the launch last month of two Latin-inspired and Latin-targeted women's sportswear lines: Cubavera, to be sold at major department stores, and Havanera Co., a private label to be manufactured for JCPenney. Each is an extension of a successful men's line bearing the same name. "Our Hispanic-focused brands brought in $23 million in revenue in fiscal 2003, and we expect to almost double that for fiscal 2004," says Perry Ellis International's CEO, George Feldenkreis. "At this...
...year into his role at the Courtauld, Cuno announced that he was leaving London and crossing the Atlantic again to take the helm of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the top U.S. museums. Meanwhile, he edited a controversial book, Whose Muse, concerning the role and fate of art museums. Cuno has defended his book on tour and on the radio—debating Malcolm Rogers, director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), on National Public Radio, and appearing at a Harvard Book Store talk at the Sackler Museum last week...
...Whose Muse is replete with stories of the power of art museums when encumbered by commercialism and money. Neil MacGregor, who directs London’s British Museum, relates the powerful story of how, during World War II, the National Gallery—which had shipped its collection off to Wales for safekeeping—bowed to public pressure and hung a single Old Master painting each month...
Inspiration for his dances does not only come from his fellow students. “My muse is the music. I can always tell if I’m about to choreograph something once I hear the music. If a great beat hits my ears, I can see the dance...I can imagine how bodies fit to each element of the music. The positive competition of the dance world at Harvard also keeps Okusanya “challenged to do a little more.” He calls the atmosphere “competitive good-everyone’s always...