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...sportswear shapes, Costa brings a refined sense of color and an appreciation for innovative fabrics. He opened the show with a passage of skinny, high-waisted pants in shades of chalk, pale pink and putty and then punctuated a crisp, natural palette with two drop-dead simple organza T-shirt dresses in grass green and - what else? - sky blue...
...Everything John Edwards says, does and wears, from the frayed cuffs of his faded jeans to the rolled-up sleeves of his basic blue shirt, tells these people he is one of them. He may be a millionaire trial lawyer, but he made his money by taking on corporations on behalf of regular folks, "and I beat 'em and I beat 'em and I beat 'em again." He and Elizabeth fall into a little routine onstage-she's the smart, gabby wife, he's the exasperated but loving husband-and when she interrupts him by mopping up some water that...
...buyer, of course; Chinese moguls and Western collectors head instead for dealers like Wang Facai (literally meaning "fortune"), whose store called Rare Stones, carries no precious jewels, just some dusty Ming vases (likely fakes) and cheap fish fossils scattered on the shelves. The bulky Wang, in a muscle T-shirt, glances around before beckoning me into one of two back rooms. From a secret closet behind a mirror, he pulls out a slab of rock which contains the profile of a half bird, half dinosaur, Confuciusornis sanctus, whose discovery in 1994 helped scientists develop the theory that birds evolved from...
...Around the corner is the caf? Alois S., whose owner, a balding 48-year-old named Lothar Heer clad in a Grateful Dead t-shirt, says his original plan was to build a tapas bar. That was 2001, when his establishment stood alongside a playground bearing the scars of communist neglect. After fighting with sluggish city bureaucrats for a couple of years, Heer got permission to break open the walls and open a terrace out onto the playground. Then, he and some local parents formed a citizens group and applied for and were actually awarded some 20,000 euros...
...Praagh, wearing a tasteful striped, button-down shirt and black pants, said he was excited about making some fashion predictions. "I do a lot of aesthetic work," he said, telling me about his business designing healing gardens. "And I watch a lot of HGTV...