Word: philos
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...Never before in U.S. history had Jewish leaders shown such bold hostility toward Evangelical Christians, the largest Protestant community in America and, by most measures, the most philo-Semitic and pro-Israel. In normal times, this would be paradoxical. In an age of jihad it was dangerously perverse...
EVER SINCE DESIGNER Phoebe Philo announced her departure from Chloé in January, members of the fashion world have been gripping their metallic Paddington bags in anticipation of who would be her successor. (When Philo left, her design team soldiered on for two seasons under the direction of head designer Yvan Mispelaere, who is leaving to join Gucci.) The Chloé reins now go to Swedish-born, Milan-based Paulo Melim Andersson, 34, formerly design director of the popular Italian label Marni. Melim Andersson has big shoes to fill: under Philo's direction, Chloé became one of fashion's hottest brands, spurring...
...some moments you say no. There are limits. You may be their servant, but you are also their boss." Toledano has done an excellent job of walking that delicate line: he is widely credited with discovering and nurturing two of the industry's biggest talents, Alber Elbaz and Phoebe Philo...
...managers may hold the strings, but sometimes a designer snips them, as Phoebe Philo did at Chloé when she resigned last spring. Ralph Toledano concedes that although Chloé is currently a collective endeavor by Philo's design team, a brand needs a fashion face. And the chain reaction cannot happen unless all the elements are in place...
...life of Jesus, son of God. It's written in simple, sedate language that steers clear of both clanging anachronisms and those King Jamesian ye's and unto's and begats. A few liberties are taken; Rice plays with the idea that young Jesus might have befriended the philosopher Philo of Alexandria, and she has Jesus perform the odd healing or two and a bit of weather control, but that's hardly much of a walk on the apocryphal side...