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...been healthy this year, unlike the past two seasons,” Clever said following the latter meet. “This season I’m getting into shape, and I’ve gotten stronger, quicker on the runway, and more flexible, and it’s translated into bigger distances...
Airbus isn't blinking. The workers at the Clement Ader plant in Toulouse toil away to the scream of rock-guitar music while tourists observe their labors from a metallic catwalk. Across from the plant, on the other side of a runway, a site has been cleared for the colossal building that will house the A380s. The engineers will probably bike in the hangar--an aerospace version of the Tour de France. And like the tour's cyclists, they know better than to discount the American competitor...
...majority of the models for the various runway shows are found through an open model call run by modelBOSTON 2001. In the spring, modelBOSTON selects 50 “faces to watch” (30 women and 20 men) who are made over and get a taste of what it means to be a professional model as they “do [their] little turns on the catwalk.” In true “Survivor” fashion, the end of the weekend brings about the whittling down of the number of models to thirty total (20 women...
...fact, many of the runway events lump together a group of designers, rather than highlighting individual ones. While a few designers (such as favorites Nigel Ramsay—who donated clothing to Harvard’s Milleneganza 2000—and Rohan Thomas) have their own shows, the majority of the actual runway shows incorporate more than one designer’s fashions into the program, generally centering around a theme such as Thursday night’s club-wear collection...
Just as the inclusion of as many designers as possible on each runway helps recognize as many talented Bostonians as possible, the ease with which the public can attend the weekend’s events follows with the vision of the Boston Fashion Week founder and executive producer, Jay Calderin, of a Boston “fashion community.” At other major fashion events, a person needs to hand over a DNA sample or be dating (or be) someone with the last name Paltrow, Onassis or Roberts to be let into shows. Boston’s shows...