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Giorgio Armani desribed his fall 2007 Prive collection as more aggressive. "The world has changed even for the very rich," he said at a press conference before his show here on Wednesday night. "These clothes are for a woman who wants to express herself more aggressively with forms and silhouettes that are unusual." Certainly, many of the egg-shaped ballgowns that made up the finale of the show were unusual for Armani and the flashes of fuchsia and lime green throughout were new for the designer best known as the king of beige, but the razor-sharp tailoring on tiny...
ULTRA-AFFLUENT Latin America has the highest level of the superrich (at least $30 million), when defined as a percentage of the total number of rich individuals living in a region...
LUXURY The world's rich dedicated about 1.8% of their net worth last year to "investments of passion," spending the most on collectibles like yachts and private planes...
CONTEXT Clinton notoriously issued 140 pardons on his last day in office, including one to tax evader Marc Rich--whose lawyer at the time just happened to be Scooter Libby...
...busy with her duties to tour her domain. Not everyone will recognize Smith when she does; the Home Secretary's staff have been reduced to pinching outdated photos from her personal website to circulate around the building. But with terrorist groups having seemingly decided that Britain remains a rich target for their operations, whether or not Blair is the nation's Prime Minister, a lack of recognition won't trouble Smith for long...