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Forget the free-flowing blouses and unstructured handbags that have dominated department-store shelves for months. The mood this summer is decidedly sharper, and designers are taking their inspiration from origami. At the Christian Dior haute couture show, models posed in intricately tucked, bowed and creased ensembles, while Italian design company Pallucco's complex Glow lamp could easily double for a paper crane. For a more loosely based interpretation, turn to MOMA Design Store's curvy leather caterpillar or Ligne Roset's angular Facett chair. Even Lalique has come into the fold with Vibration, a collection of crystal pieces inspired...
With the income line between the rich and the super-rich becoming sharper and more and more individuals gaining access to run-of-the-mill luxury, the gilded class is looking for ways to set itself apart. Luxury brands are responding with exclusive products that offer a personal touch. "We are so inundated with luxury right now that the guy who once bought three Zegna suits is upgrading to something even more luxurious," says Michael Macko, men's fashion director at Saks Fifth Avenue...
...Jeff and Craig Cox, Busy Philipps, John Altschuler and David Krinsky), certainly not Ferrell - is even remotely trying to make a great film. It has the slapdash air of a movie that was a little more fun to shoot than to watch. To say that Blades is a little sharper than Kicking and Screaming, but not nearly so smart as the best parts of Talladega, is like taste-testing a Big Mac against a Whopper and a Wendy's Classic Double. In other words, Blades an acceptable Friday evening diversion, most of which will have run through your system...
...naturally gifted as he is as an actor (untrained, he studied communications), Cowell's instincts are even sharper as a writer. It was at university, after seeing David Rabe's 1984 play Hurlyburly, when he decided to become a playwright. "The idea of this man screaming at a television, on cocaine, just having a dialogue with the newsreader-I remember watching that scene and just wanting to write something like that, wanting to write this psychotic angry male spree," says Cowell, who premiered his first play, Men, at Sydney's shoebox-sized Old Fitzroy Theatre in 2000. "I have...
...school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame, who represented the principal, asked the court to carve out a “drug exception” to student free speech. This represents the virulent erosion of centuries of constitutional precedent and is a slippery slope towards an even sharper reduction in the free speech rights of students. After all, if “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” tangentially relates to school curriculum, almost anything could be linked to the school’s mission. Frederick’s message is almost incomprehensible, but his rights remain inviolable. He expressed...