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...venerable French jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels opened their doors Wednesday to present their newest fine jewelry collection, Atlantide. Many of the pieces were just models since most of the collection is still in production up in the ateliers. If all goes according to plan, the Atlantide collection will travel from Paris to Hong Kong in the fall and land in New York City just in time for the holidays. Based on the mythic stories of Neptune and his queen, Cleita, the Van Cleef creative team explored the deep sea, using smatterings of pearls to depict ocean spray and rare aqua...
...Feathers seem to have replaced fur on most couture runways here this week. At a press conference this morning, Giorgio Armani explained that although he has used fur in his collections in the past, the Prive show he will present tonight at the Theatre de Chaillot will not have any fur. "I spoke with the people from PETA," he explained, "and they showed me some materials that convinced me not to use fur." So instead he has whipped up some pretty jazzy feathered boleros that are inspired by the rock music of David Bowie...
...Sishawa, points out that half of his establishment's profits come from hookah pipes and that he is planning to lay off staff as a result of the ban. From this month onward shisha smokers will be forced to relocate themselves outside, where Al-Shishawa can at present accommodate only a tenth of its customers. Other cafes that don't serve food face complete closure...
...better to present graduates with such a proclamation than someone who has spent his career doing those very things for the students and their college...
...altering events: My great aunt, whom I did not know, passed away; arguments always subsided and resolved; and my high school volleyball coach recovered from breast cancer after months of chemotherapy. While grief has grazed me in the past, these encounters with almost-tragedies left me unprepared for the present...