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HONOLULU Hawaiians seek out CoverGirl's Outlast All-Day Lipcolor ($9.50) in Ever Red-dy, which was also a favorite on Prada's spring runway...
...completely out of synch with everything else. In Milan, that designer is usually Miuccia Prada. After several seasons of staying on the groomed slopes, she likes to veer off piste. This season Prada showed a collection as unexpected as it was aggressive. Her models came storming down the winding runway in oversize nylon anoraks and long, slouched-on black coats worn over heavy knit dresses and chunky platform shoes. There were patches of fur down the backs of wool coats, done in such an offhand way as to almost look primitive. Even some of the shoes...
...completely out of synch with everything else. In Milan, that designer is usually Miuccia Prada. After several seasons of staying on the groomed slopes, she likes to veer off piste. This season, Prada showed a collection as unexpected as it was aggressive. Her models came storming down the winding runway in oversized nylon anoraks and long, slouched-on black coats worn over heavy knit dresses and chunky platform shoes. There were patches of fur down the backs of wool coats, done in such an offhand way as to almost look primitive. Even some of the shoes...
...country has lately been generating fashion designers like China churns out brand-name knockoffs. "I can count about 30 new designers on the market in just the last year or so," says Anna Limpichart, a fashion-show organizer responsible for next month's Bangkok Fashion Week, an annual runway showcase for local designers. Even seen-it-all international cognoscenti are taking notice. After attending last year's Bangkok Fashion Week, Paris-based fashion critic Diane Pernet said she was stuck by the "amazing enthusiasm" of Thai designers. "You don't see anything like that in Paris or Milan," says Pernet...
That's just the start. A sprawling $200 million airport is being built on the existing grounds and is scheduled to open next year. Its three-mile runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380--or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway...