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...creates everything from power suits to chocolate. Is there anything Giorgio Armani doesn't design? His latest project is the Cavour220 residences in Rome, housed in six buildings, including a 19th century monastery. Each of the 62 units has a unique floor plan and features materials like travertine and Eramosa limestone to blend past and present...
...told me recently, explaining the inspiration behind the sharp-shouldered suits he showed for fall. "A structured jacket gives you confidence. It gives you posture." What is it about economic uncertainty that always seems to inspire fashion types to ransack the decade of excess?from the serious power suits of Working Girl to the Lycra look of Spandau Ballet--style club kids? This is no time to get nostalgic, though. The most creative people find opportunity in crisis. And this special supplement to Time is dedicated to 12 such individuals?women in the business of style who take innovation seriously...
...some outside players remain stuck in the same old ruts. A SADC summit this month in Kinshasa somehow contrived to remove Zimbabwe - the most pressing issue facing the region - from its agenda, resolving merely that a committee of three SADC members would "review" progress on power-sharing between Mugabe and Tsvangirai. Mugabe himself continues to delay the formation of a unity government, while his top brass seem focused on squirreling away as much cash as they can for as long as they are able. Mugabe's foot soldiers continue to harass, imprison and murder MDC activists. (See pictures of political...
...reality is that a legitimate transfer of power away from Zimbabwe's one and only leader since full independence was never going to be quick. As a Western diplomat in Harare says: "We used to say we want elections. But Tsvangirai says he needs time to build institutions, and he's right. As we've seen in Zimbabwe, elections with the present institutions are no guarantee of change." In 2008, Mugabe unleashed a fresh wave of repression against the MDC after losing a general election, violence that ultimately prolonged his rule. The fervent hope among the MDC's impatient supporters...
...failed to win over the public; two thirds of voters opposed the tax in a poll published by Paris Match days before the announcement. Denis Baupin, Paris's green deputy mayor, likened it to "treating a gravely ill patient with aspirin." (Watch TIME's video: "The Truth About Wind Power...