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...DIED. JANET REGER, 69, women's underwear designer whose company brought back sexy, luxury lingerie to Britain; in London. Reger founded Janet Reger Creations in 1967, introducing a line of brightly colored, lace-trimmed under-garments in satin and silk. Women flocked to be fitted by Reger and men anticipated the company's racy sales catalogs. Reger's daughter, Aliza, now runs the company...
...veteran knew what he was looking for: exhibits for a local ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of General Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines at the close of World War II. Instead, the third-generation Philippine-American may have discovered something of enormous historical value: a brittle, stained satin flag that the Philippine National Historical Institute reportedly says is "most likely" the nation's first. That would be the one designed in 1897 by General Emilio Aguinaldo while in exile in Hong Kong, and unfurled the following year when he declared independence from the U.S.?starting the first Philippine...
...Lady in Satin. Billie Holiday's voice, late in her career, sounded like pure heartbreak--and it was captured beautifully on this 1958 classic...
Armstrong in particular embraced the challenge. As a kid, he sang show tunes at convalescent homes and veterans' hospitals, and he used the operatic concept as a chance to "figure out if I could take something like If My Friends Could See Me Now or Satin Doll and make it punk rock. I used everything I've ever learned or liked in music," he says. It shows. A significant part of American Idiot's charm is that for an album that bemoans the state of the union, it is irresistibly buoyant. Listen closely, and you will hear a story about...
Strapped into a 50-lb. satin gown that took 1,000 hours and all 28 of Christian Dior's couture seamstresses to stitch, Slovenian model MELANIA KNAUSS, 34, wed real estate mogul DONALD TRUMP, 58, in a lavish affair Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla. It was a busy week of self-promotion leading up to the nuptials: Knauss showed off her mammoth wedding caparison in the February issue of Vogue, left, while her fianc?? made the rounds vaunting the new season of his reality show, The Apprentice, which he's considering turning into a Broadway musical. But when it came...