Word: seamstressing
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...before, the former Young Australian Designer of the Year had moved from Melbourne to Paris burned out by his early success. But in the 10 years since, Grant, 39, has calmly gone about his business, producing two collections a year with little more noise than the sound of his seamstress scissors. Along the way, his exquisite tailoring caught the eye of Vogue tastemaker Andre Leon Talley. In 2003, upscale department store Barneys asked him to design for its private label, and the following year he turned down the top job at couture house C?line, preferring to stay small. Which...
...Parks was having a good day," writes Giovanni at the start of her retelling of the Rosa Parks story. But, as most Americans know, that chilly, ordinary workday of an extraordinary seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately helped ignite the civil rights movement. Giovanni, a poet and black activist, keeps her evident moral outrage in check as she tells the tale of Parks' bus ride into history, maintaining the same firm, level tone that Parks did when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man. Parks, Giovanni writes, was tired. "She was tired...
...Abhay and Rani got a seamstress to stitch the sleeping bags and a carpenter to make the abacuses, and they drew up a health training program that they taught to a newly assembled corps of village health workers. In 1999, the Bangs published the results of their efforts, again in the Lancet. They had cut child mortality in half--a figure that would fall to a quarter by 2003--for a cost of $2.64 for each child saved. The program is being adopted across India, where more than a quarter of the 4 million annual newborn deaths occur...
...Luther King Jr. Following the boycott, the United States government instituted the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public spaces. Parks has long been remembered in history as one of the pioneers in the civil rights movement. Although Parks was only a 42 year-old seamstress, her act is well-known by children and scholars alike. “I actually cried when I saw the news [of Parks’ death]. Rosa Parks is one of those titanic heroines that is rare in human history, a woman who seems by all means and standards...
...remembered a husband who had succeeded in sponsoring the immigration of his wife, a seamstress, and three children to the U.S. just one year ago. Without family in the country and relatively few skills, they had nowhere to go. They were like many of the refugees served by the student volunteers, people who lacked roots that stretched far beyond New Orleans and simply moved from shelter to some other version of temporary...