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...than previously acknowledged. Helping one person lose weight can have a snowball effect through an entire social network, affecting social norms among the target person's friends and acquaintances. "There's been a lot of talk about limiting portion size, getting rid of vending machines in schools," says Thomas Sander, a civic-engagement specialist at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, not involved in the research. Those interventions may be useful, he says. "This study suggests that if we're fighting obesity without taking into account the social aspect, we're going to be acting with our hands...
...Milan the Belgian designer Raf Simons registered this change most notably with his pared-down Jil Sander collection of strict capes and coats worn over stovepipe-slim black pants. Miuccia Prada also turned her back on traditional notions of luxury, replacing last year's opulent long-haired furs with shaggy mohair coats and matted-wool twinsets. Even designers who are not minimalists at heart, like Donatella Versace, toned it down with classic black and gray coats and suits punctuated with an occasional flash of turquoise or tomato...
Like Prada, there are a handful of designers over the past decade who have made headlines with fabric. In the mid-1990s, Helmut Lang and Jil Sander started incorporating techno-fabrics like nylon and carbon into more traditional weaves, giving them a lighter hand or a three-dimensional quality. They pushed the boundaries, often employing far-out materials like rubber and plastic. More recently, Alexander McQueen has expressed a ghostly romantic vibe with fine spiderweb netting. Francisco Costa has been playing with perforated latex and stretch scuba at Calvin Klein. And at Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld reintroduced the idea of rubber...
...logo in sight on the runway of young designer Doo-Ri Chung, whose spare and ethereal designs have garnered her a devoted following and the 2006 CFDA Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Talent. Similarly, Belgian designer Raf Simons has made a return hit of Jil Sander's clean collection, which he describes as "pure," "silent" and "romantic." "The aesthetic that comes out is 'Let's not add what's not necessary,'" he says...
...Professor Frank E. A. Sander, who was chairman of HLS ad-board in 1985, declined to comment on the protest...