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...hours after it opened in New York City last week, a temporary Target store ran through its stock of 2,000 shopping bags. The buying frenzy was brought on by fashionistas lunging for new designs like the silk logo shirt ($24.99), left, created by Isaac Mizrahi for the mass-market retailer. "It's a big world out there," Mizrahi said, "and I want to dress everyone...
...COVER: Photograph for TIME by Raul Martinez. Liya Kebede wears a Dior by John Galliano silk chiffon and satin jacket. Styled by Ricky Vider Rivers. Hair by Ward for Bumble and Bumble. Makeup by Fulvia Farolfi. Hand models: Angie Caraballo and Ruth Rose for Parts Models. Manicure by Deborah Lippmann...
...imagery is as much a part of the fabric of fashion as silk, satin and thread, the imagemakers of the fashion business bring something immaterial to the cloth itself. Call it what you want; like all creativity, it's hard to define. We can feel it as an aura of allure or fantasy, the mysterious fever of the cool...
...itinerant artists and prostitutes?the 30-year-old actor has managed over the past year to convert his tradition-tempered stylishness into modern star power through a series of spectacularly successful film and TV roles. Sipping cranberry juice in a Tokyo caf? before a performance, dressed in a silk summer jacket and jeans accessorized with a Beastie Boys cap and an oversize black-skull ring, he explains his crossover appeal with a mischievous analogy: "The original Kabuki actors had a real punk attitude. It was the rock music of the Edo period...
...Constantly evolving and mutating, Chatuchak?probably the largest market on the planet?is split into 26 sectors sprawling over 112,000 square meters. There are more than 10,000 retailers, stocking everything from mass-produced teak furniture to great bolts of raw Thai silk, to bushels of imitation fruit and vegetables. The sartorial detritus of yesteryear, shipped to Thailand by U.S. and Japanese wholesalers, can be found in the 400 or so ramshackle stalls crammed into Sector...