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Funny thing about fashion: just when everyone--including the copycats who are now a mouse-click away--is cashing in on the look of the moment, some Young Turk will thrust a seemingly absurd idea onto the runway and turn the multibillion-dollar global business on its head. Prada did it when she introduced that ladylike look just as every fashionista was baring her navel. And a year ago, Italian designer Stefano Pilati gave the crowd at his debut Yves Saint Laurent show a jolt when he suggested the awkward silhouette of short, tulip-shaped skirts and puff-sleeved blouses...
Some call it fashion, others may call it the theater of the absurd. Last week in Milan a couple of unassuming goats shared a runway with a farmhand and some models. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the house of Dolce & Gabbana, which was held at the designers' slick new space in the old Metropol theater where Maria Callas famously recorded her interpretation of Norma. Guests including actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Chloë Sevigny watched a movie documenting two decades of D&G's sexy, streamlined signatures before the models stomped out in fresh white eyelet bustier dresses...
...plane on landing) deployed and the nose pitched up slightly higher than usual-all of which helped burn off unwanted fuel faster-the pilots executed a textbook emergency landing a Los Angeles. They brought the plane in as slow as possible, touched down in the center of the runway, and by holding the sidestick back kept the nosewheel from touching down until the last moment, and then applied the brakes to come to a safe stop. The incident also carried a reminder for passengers-flying is the safest its ever been in the U.S. but a large part of that...
...these days. Filming began last weekend on the movie adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, a roman à clef penned by a former assistant to Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. In the movie, MERYL STREEP plays Miranda Priestly, the temperamental, overweening editor of a fictional fashion glossy called Runway--a character based loosely on Wintour. But the movie's stylists did away with the fashion queen's dark bob and sunglasses, reportedly to make the character sexier, more provocative and not so devilish. Or maybe they thought Wintour's real look is just way too scary...
...recent fine August day, I had a little bit of a scare. My Air China flight from Ningbo to Beijing was just rolling down the runway for take-off. I was sitting quietly, unopened book in lap and smug thoughts about a certain half-price plane ticket in mind, when my seat started shaking, harder than before...