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Maureen Chiquet, president and COO of Chanel Inc., is a walking example of this style. "I like to wear jeans and a Juicy Couture tank top with a special piece," she says. "Head to toe in a fancy outfit doesn't look modern. And price is no longer the determinant of style." That from a senior exec at Chanel? "Well, you either want something superexpensive with beautiful detailing, or you want something that's hip and disposable. What does the well-made, kind of nice stuff in the middle mean anymore...
While many of NewMargin's projects are in IT, Feng still invests in companies that allow him to get his hands dirty. When he discovered Shenzhen-based hazardous-waste- treatment outfit Dongjiang in 2001, it was making a scant $100,000 a year collecting refuse from factories and, according to Feng, treating it so inexpertly that the company caused more pollution. Feng's younger brother Bo, also one of China's leading VCs, advised him against an investment. "It didn't look like a winner," admits Feng. But with his guidance, Dongjiang now boasts clients such as IBM, bringing...
...program winds down, these oddities are joined by more familiar forms. A ceramic camel carries an entire band of traveling minstrels, and a stylishly plump court lady wears an eclectic silk outfit, remarkably well preserved. The show comes at a fitting time. Today, inhabitants of the places that held these treasures tend to look back at the culture of their forbears as monolithic, and only now beset by tainting influences from abroad. But their ancestors knew differently. They managed their confusing times with grace and curiosity?and wandering among the pieces of what they left behind is a rare pleasure...
Remember, though, that the place’s wacky experimental leanings mean you may not always love what you hear. Its Monday night regular band, The Fringe, is supposedly the longest-running avant-garde jazz outfit in Cambridge, but when TheHotSpot heard it this week we found the rambling two-and-a-half-hour set to be bizarre, brash…and incredibly boring. And TheHotspot even likes Ornette Coleman...
Another photo, “Aya, 16, in her basement bedroom looks for an outfit to wear to school,” shows a teenager surrounded by a colorful sea of rejected clothes...