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Even with all this success, Philo remains as cool and breezy as her washed-silk peasant skirts. "I still don't really understand who I'm designing for," she says on the phone from Venice, where she is taking in the Biennale with her husband, art dealer Max Wigram. "It's definitely not me. I wear jeans and T shirts and comfy shoes. I really don't dress up at all." It must be that sixth sense of style...
...Lanvin's silk-covered pearls and ethnic-inspired beads, left, are the hot accessory for summer. (Even actress Lindsay Lohan is sporting them.) Designer Alber Elbaz introduced the oversize necklaces last fall, and everyone is following suit?from Yves Saint Laurent to Marni and Prada...
...Lanvin's silk-covered pearls and ethnic-inspired beads, pictured, are the hot accessory for summer. (Even actress Lindsay Lohan is sporting them.) Designer Alber Elbaz introduced the oversize necklaces last fall, and everyone is following suit - from Yves Saint Laurent to Marni and Prada. Get the less expensive version from Erwin Pearl (erwinpearl.com) or Kenneth Jay Lane (qvc.com). What's Old Is New Again Technology is the secret ingredient favored by most skin-care companies in search of the next miracle potion. But New York City's C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries, founded in 1838, is famous for reaching back into...
...another matter. That is why Beijing declares victory when street sales of pirated DVDs move into licensed stores that present the same product in better packaging with money-back guarantees and, of course, taxes duly paid. That is why a decades-long campaign to clean up Beijing's "Silk Alley," a national showcase of pirated foreign sportswear and wristwatches, ends with fanfare when the new "Silk Street" shopping center opens, selling the same products under city regulation. And that is why China's leaders can promote a national campaign to protect intellectual property and at the same time declare that...
...many paintings of the "four noble plants": plum blossoms, which flower before the snows melt, symbolize the hope of spring; chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness is celebrated in an exquisite silk hanging scroll, Bamboo Blowing in the Wind by Yi Chong (1541-1626), a royal prince who is considered the greatest Korean painter of bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect Yi achieves by altering the proportion of water...