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Indeed, at Paris runway shows and Hollywood premieres, stars from Portman to Jennifer Connelly are turning up in Chloé's soft-flowing dresses, peasant skirts and chunky heeled boots. Her influence is spreading even to women who have to pay for their clothes. Not since Helmut Lang introduced superskinny stovepipe pants in the early 1990s has fashion seen such a radical shift in shape. And Philo is widely credited with loosening up the silhouette. "She has absolute precision in terms of being able to seize the fashion moment," says Claudine Barnabé, owner of Espionne, a trendy fashion boutique in Paris...
Even with all this success, Philo remains as cool and breezy as her washed-silk peasant skirts. "I still don't really understand who I'm designing for," she says on the phone from Venice, where she is taking in the Biennale with her husband, art dealer Max Wigram. "It's definitely not me. I wear jeans and T shirts and comfy shoes. I really don't dress up at all." It must be that sixth sense of style...
...DIED. FEI XIAOTONG, 94, Chinese sociologist and anthropologist famous for documenting Chinese rural life in works such as Peasant Life in China and From the Soil; in Beijing. One of China's most distinguished and prolific scholars, Fei helped lay the foundation for sociology in China, only to fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution for studying what was considered a capitalist science. Rehabilitated, he became Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and later served as an adviser to then-Shanghai party secretary Jiang Zemin during the 1989 student-led democracy movement...
Some gags work: a peasant crosses the stage with a bale of hay just as a rousing, Fiddler on the Roof-style chorus line points and shouts, "Hey!" Some gags--the choleric knight who gets his arms and legs cut off--worked better onscreen. But Idle's runaway hit musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a rowdy, anything-goes spirit as well as two memorable numbers: You Won't Succeed on Broadway ("if you don't have any Jews") and the infectious Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. You have to be a Python...
...were thought to frequent. My grandfather was carrying a bento, a box lunch; foxes were known to love bento. Walking along, he suddenly heard the sound of straw shoes trudging in the sand behind him--sarrah, sarrah, sarrah. My grandfather looked back and saw what appeared to be a peasant girl in a dress, a shawl and sandals. But foxes were known to wear such disguises. One way to be sure was to see how the creature crossed water. If it stepped across, it was a peasant girl; if it jumped, it was a fox. When my grandfather came...