Word: rem
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...Badgley Mischka's shiny burgundy leather looks like Star Trek. Los Angeles-based designer Jenisa Washington's all-leather line, Sold (a sample above), is three years old, but Vogue recently named her one of this year's trendsetters. Marc Garson, owner of the New York City manufacturing house Rem Garson, started creating animal-skin sportswear in 1991. "People thought I was stupid," he says. But last year sales tripled, and he's now making leather basketball shirts (like NBA court gear) for the trendy FUBU line. From 1999 to 2000, sales of women's leatherwear increased a whopping...
...stores. Or so goes the conventional thinking. Since the early 1990s, the shift, particularly in the U.S., from designers selling to retailers to stocking their own directly operated stores has changed the face of the shopping landscape. Some of the world's greatest architects are now designing stores. Rem Koolhaas, who won architecture's Nobel Prize equivalent last year, the Pritzker, is conceptualizing the New York Prada store, which sits beneath the Soho Guggenheim Museum. Christian de Portzamparc, who won the Pritzker in 1994, designed the LVMH tower on New York's 57th Street. So when Gucci took over Yves...
During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the part of the sleep cycle most closely associated with dreaming, Stickgold says "there is a lot of communication between the neocortex and the hippocampus...
...center has composed a symphony of lively design exhibitions. The series' overture contains film titles from Imaginary Forces, the design group that created the opening credits for the film Seven. Variations on architectural drawings by masters like Rem Koolhaas are also on view. And scattered throughout the galleries and acting as a unifying intermezzo is the sculptural furniture of Scott Burton. The finale is The Predator by architect Greg Lynn and painter Fabian Marcaccio, a massive installation inspired by the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, part alien organism and part architectural...
...Since I wasn't getting much I thought it was an interesting discussion," he jokes. He did a paper on REM sleep and dreaming...