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This weekend, tall, leggy models strutted down a glamorized version of what is usually Quad Yard. A large tent complete with runway, lights and seating reminiscent of New York Fashion Week played host to Project East, a fashion show exhibiting exclusively Asian designer names...
...There is no doubt that the flowing silks and chiffons that came down the runway represented a project stitched together with the best of intentions. In fostering name recognition for Asian designers, Project East sought to pave the way for new lines of clothing and artistic dialogue. However, a potential complication lies somewhere deep under the layers of glitter and creative expression, on the demand side of the economic equation. The high-fashion industry is a manifestation of a global culture of consumerism that is not in particular need of reinforcement...
...fashion show organized by Timothy M. Parent ’09 and Kristin S. Kim ’09, will showcase Asian designers and aims to raise awareness of the thriving Asian fashion design scene.The idea for “Project East,” which hits the runway tomorrow, was formulated in the summer of 2006 while Parent and Kim were in Korea. “We happened to meet up [while in Korea] and started talking about how we had discovered so many cool Korean designers during our summer there,” Kim says...
...myth, of course, that the Great Wall of China is visible from space. Although LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault was unable to reverse that on a trip to the ancient world's most ambitious building project last Friday night, LVMH did succeed in floodlighting a fashion runway atop the wall, lighting up the stairway to the beacon towers at Juyongguan Pass, as well as the surrounding mountain tops and, to the surprise of some Chinese guests in an audience which included movie star Ziyi Zhang and the granddaughter of reformist leader, Deng Xiaoping, branding the hillsides with projections...
...IWNC, a corporate-team-building firm that has worked with Cathay. When those teams break down, Cathay is vulnerable to the same problems facing every other airline. For example, in June a mechanical problem delayed a Cathay flight in San Francisco, forcing 400passengers to sit on the runway for seven hours and hitting the airline with a rare round of negative publicity...