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...began the job of processing bodies. There were plenty of parachutes in the field, so nylon panels served as personal-effects bags and body bags. Each body was searched and all personal effects were secured, but no inventory was taken. A ruled tablet served as Graves Registration Form No. 1. Both identification tags were left with the body until it was ready to be placed into a grave. One tag stayed with the body after burial, and the other was attached to the stake that served as a grave marker. Today a small monument at the Les Forges crossroads marks...
...father. The name was derived from his initials plus the first letters of the farm and village where he grew up (Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd). The idea was--and still is--to create and sell innovative design at a great price. Initially he sold such items as pens, picture frames and nylon stockings. But he was interested in the work of mid-century furniture designers like Charles Eames, Arne Jacobsen and Russel Wright. Eventually Kamprad turned his focus to mail-order catalogs and stores that could sell his wares on a mass scale. At the time, cash-and-carry furniture was unheard...
...period that keeps pulling us back? Peace and prosperity may not have been the purview of that era alone--the '90s' bubble was good while it lasted--but the '50s hold a special place in America's collective imagination. At what other time in history did Hershey bars and nylon stockings--both in short supply during World War II--wield such transformative powers? The optimism was eventually shattered by the disillusionment of Vietnam and Watergate, but for a brief period America was the land of possibility...
...Balenciaga and the supremely talented Junya Watanabe, a protégé of Rei Kawakubo, both mixed the past with the present - showing shrunken jackets over full, tulip-shaped skirts, or, in Watanabe's case, pumping up the strictly tailored 1950s couture jacket by cutting it from down-filled nylon. Watanabe called his clothes "classic in all senses, regardless of the period." And his mix of hip-hop inspired baggy denim and snug jackets - cut to resemble Christian Dior's famous 1950s numbers - looked modern and romantic at the same time. Also going back to the future was Olivier Theyskens...
...want my undulating undies with the marabou frills. I want my beautiful bolero with the porcupine quills. I want my purple nylon girdle with the orange-blossom buds, 'Cause I'm going, do-mi-do-ing, in my do-mi-do duds...