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...with a fifth-anniversary convention, UglyCon, to be held in Los Angeles in December. "I'll bet there are toy-company boardrooms filled with Uglydoll samples and that they're scratching their heads as to why it works and why they didn't do it first," says Eric Nakamura, owner of L.A.-based Asian pop-culture store Giant Robot, where the first doll was sold. "I'm sure people have lost their jobs over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You Calling Ugly? | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Horvath was so thrilled that the day he received the doll, he carried it around with him and at one point ran into his friend Nakamura. "It was original and simple in a time when handmade plush dolls were too ornate and craftlike," says the Giant Robot owner. "The prototype had great energy and didn't ask too much in terms of analyzing it as a form or design concept. It was just easy to like. So I ordered 20." They sold out immediately. Kim sewed a second batch of a new character, Babo (Wage's blue, buck-toothed, dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You Calling Ugly? | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Here comes the rebirth of another great brand. Jeffrey Kalinsky, owner of the luxury boutique Jeffrey, foraged through Gant's archives dating to 1949, looking at photos and original garments, and came up with a new twist on its classic slim-fitted button-downs and rugby shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A to Z | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...June. Next month the event returns to Miami with more galleries than last year signed up to take part. Medda, who was raised in Greece and London and now lives in Florida, has expertise that extends beyond her years; she has spent her whole life learning from her gallery-owner mother. As the director of Design Miami/, she's an authority in her own right and has given a fashionable face to design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A to Z | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...touts itself as the wind energy capital of the world. The lawsuit has brought the city's past and present into conflict. Most of the 18 plaintiffs in the case, according to their Houston attorney Steve Thompson, work in Abilene - among them a doctor, a professor and a gym owner - but have chosen to live the nostalgic "ranch lifestyle" outside the city, and that's where old Texas and new are colliding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Windmill Turbines: Not at Home on the Range | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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