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...POSEN BAG For his spring collection, Zac Posen wanted to go big, but he didn't want to adjust the silhouette of his clothing. So he created the oversize messenger bag, playing with volume in accessories instead. Result: his first line of glamorous bags made of exotic skins (python, stingray and lizard), versatile enough for a last-minute weekend jaunt...
...barn jackets and jeans into social butterflies. They step out in ladylike dresses and slip into one of the pairs of perilously high round-toed pumps set out for them. (The heels are said to elongate their legs and give the dresses the right line.) They cinch skinny python belts around their waists, admiring their new selves...
...past few seasons, fashion--even in this creative capital--has become an extravagantly commercial endeavor. Every-where you look there are $1,200 handbags with exotic gewgaws like padlocks or python patches or chain-link straps. There's nothing wrong with success, of course, but people can stay excited about handbags for only so long. Every now and then, designers need to send shock waves through the fashion system, if only just to keep its heart racing. And in Paris the real designers did just that...
...Hendrawan stands in the slaughtering yard surrounded by piles of yellow and green intestines, the concrete floor awash with blood. On the right, a group of men squat on the floor in a row, holding a four-meter reticulated python. Even in the dim light of the slaughtering shed, the crisscross pattern of green, yellow, henna and black stripes that gave the snake its name glows with vivid life. The men flip the wriggling creature over, exposing its white underbelly. With practiced ease the python is slit open and gutted, then flung into a corner amidst the hoses and plastic...
...vain queen at her magic mirror. Gilliam, who loathes the "juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French villain (when Will charges, "You killed my friends," Pryce purrs, "I only wish you had more") with the labored buffoonery of Peter Stormare's Italian henchman. But in the enchanted forest, Grimm's sense of wonder is spellbinding--a reminder that Gilliam...