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...India 747 off the coast of Ireland on June 23, in which all 329 occupants perished. In February, an Iberia Boeing 727 crashed into a mountain in Spain, killing all 148 aboard. Just two weeks ago, a Delta Air Lines wide-bodied Lockheed L-1011 failed to reach the runway while attempting a landing in a thunderstorm at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, dooming 134. The accidents seemed to have little in common; in all but one, however, widebodied airliners were involved. With the JAL crash, the worldwide civil aviation death toll for 1985 passed 1,400, making it the most lethal...
...celebrities and front-row types. "For two solid years I've sold out of the stuff the minute it hits the floor," says Tracey Ross, owner of her eponymous West Hollywood boutique. "She is definitely driving the whole contemporary market. They're all looking to her." Indeed, at Paris runway shows and Hollywood premieres, stars from Portman to Jennifer Connelly are turning up in Chloé's soft-flowing dresses, peasant skirts and chunky heeled boots. Her influence is spreading even to women who have to pay for their clothes. Not since Helmut Lang introduced superskinny stovepipe pants...
Indeed, at Paris runway shows and Hollywood premieres, stars from Portman to Jennifer Connelly are turning up in Chloé's soft-flowing dresses, peasant skirts and chunky heeled boots. Her influence is spreading even to women who have to pay for their clothes. Not since Helmut Lang introduced superskinny stovepipe pants in the early 1990s has fashion seen such a radical shift in shape. And Philo is widely credited with loosening up the silhouette. "She has absolute precision in terms of being able to seize the fashion moment," says Claudine Barnabé, owner of Espionne, a trendy fashion boutique in Paris...
Used to be you could just wrap a towel around your waist and call it a beach cover-up. But these days fashion is walking right off the runway and onto the beach. Making a big splash surfside this summer will mean having the right wrap--or wraps. The choices range from sporty board shorts and skirts to beaded chiffon tunics...
...grassy, 40-acre pasture at the end of the local airport's lone runway, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS)--the world's second largest aerospace firm, with headquarters in France and Germany--has built an 85,000-sq.-ft. helicopter assembly-and-repair facility under the inelegant name American Eurocopter. It is from this spanking-new building that EADS (2004 sales: $42 billion) is staging part of an aggressive push into the U.S. defense market...