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...elevation to a worldwide theme is crystallized in terms of Auschwitz. Scrawled on the walls are descriptions of SS officers killed by gypsy and Jewish inmates in a desperate attempt to alleviate their own insurmountable suffering. The silk-screened natural linen colored tablecloth that elegantly drapes over a simple table in the room’s center serves as a symbolic burial cloth of all those who have suffered, physically and emotionally. As the final connection, the Auschwitz portal inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” / “Work sets you Free” is constructed...
When the couturier Christian Dior died suddenly of a heart attack at 57, a jittery, bespectacled Algerian-born 21-year-old had to put the Dior show together. He came up with the trapeze, a dress that by dint of its intricate silk, tulle and horsehair-hemmed organza underskirts seemed to float away from the body as if by magnetic force. It was a sensation. The fashion press, not given to understatement even in 1958, proclaimed, "Yves Saint Laurent has saved France." A new design legend had arrived...
...ruins of Shahr-i-Gholghola?variously known as the City of Silence, the City of Noise or the Cursed City?tower above the Bamiyan plains of central Afghanistan, a single watchtower left of what, until its destruction in 1222, was a flourishing city on the Silk Route between Europe and China. Antitank mines left by a Soviet garrison in the 1980s deter visitors from exploring the caves and tunnels where the Taliban sheltered from coalition bombing last fall. On the other side of the plateau are sandstone cliffs honeycombed with caves and the empty niches that held the two giant...
...Garrick, wife of the actor David, was a keen follower of 18th century fashion. Her painted Chinese silk dress has a skirt so wide she must have had to go through doors sideways. She wasn't so lucky with some bed hangings she tried to smuggle in. "It was illegal to import Chinese silk," says chief curator Christopher Wilk, "because Great Britain was trying to protect the U.K. textile industry." The fabric was impounded, which left poor Mrs. Garrick "weeping like Rachel for her children," as her husband wrote to a friend. She hung the recovered material around...
...GIFTS Silk quilts, candles, karaoke machines. What do they have in common? They're "cocooning" gifts, which retailers expect will satisfy the post-Sept. 11 craving for comfort and, yes, quality family time. Sales of DVD players, this year's hottest stay-at-home splurge, have already surged nearly 50% over last year...