Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes sense that the solution to the image problem came from the biggest fur producer in the world: Saga Furs of Scandinavia, the joint marketing and public relations organization of the fur farmers of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Scandinavia provides more than half the world's fur pelts. Ten years ago, Saga opened its International Design Center. Since then it has been inviting established designers as well as hot young ones to an all-expenses-paid five-day getaway at its turn-of-the-century thatched mansion in the green hills and yellow fields of Sandbjerg, north of Copenhagen...
...inspire them, Saga developed techniques to combine different fur types and colors, as well as to dye, print, shave and twist fur and to treat it so that it can endure dry cleaning. It also helped designers get over any fur hang-ups with an education program. One of Saga's greatest successes has been to create fur that is lighter and thinner. It has made a fox-fur jacket that weighs less than a pound. And if there is one thing fashion people like, it's thin...
According to Tom Steifel-Kristensen, the p.r. manager at Saga, some 40 American designers have obtained fur licenses in the past couple of years after a little visit to Sandbjerg. "We help them develop their ideas while they're here and can use our facilities," says Steifel-Kristensen. "Then we offer to continue elaborating on their ideas after they have left and to make and supply samples." He says Saga will even help teach the designers' fur suppliers the techniques they have learned. Who could resist? Not designer Eric Gaskins, who visited Saga in 1994. "They really show someone...
...VEGAS: Well, at least Mike Tyson is off the streets. The Nevada Athletic Commission has given Tyson his old job back after the fighter promised to behave. And as hard as it is to apply the term "charity case" to a convicted rapist, the strange saga of Mike Tyson -- bolstered by the testimony of Muhammad Ali and Magic Johnson -- may actually have softened a few hearts Monday. "There are only a few punishments worse than being denied a right to make a living," Ali said in a statement. (Ali was banned for three and a half years for refusing...
...think it's really aboutslavery or even about color. The legacy of slaveryis an intrinsic part of the story butBeloved is not the grand saga ofreconstruction that many people may be expecting.It's about reconstruction on the personallevel--learning to trust and to love again andopening your heart to others. Fundamentally, it isa story about the relationship between mother anddaughter. And I believe Denver is the lifeforce ofthe film. She is the future, where-as Beloved isthe past...