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...FRANCISCO Glorgio Armani's silk stripes ($195) are a Union Square favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...smacks of oil-fueled excess - of a piece with the mad dash across the Arabian peninsula, to build the tallest, biggest glitziest structures money can buy. Their coffers bulging with surpluses, many Persian Gulf states are turning their desert into one giant construction site. There's the City of Silk project in Kuwait, Dubailand in Dubai, and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes coming up in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman who asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New City in the Saudi Desert | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...cool” clothes. Oh, when it’s only the first week of classes and every one is dressed to impress, when the Harvard community once again starts out the year with a big, fashion-savvy bang. Yummy? As I scurry to class in my loose silk blouse and navy shorts along with a pair of flashy flats (an eye-catching outfit, if I do say so myself), I am surprised to see that I do not stick out—at least not today. But let’s face it: this is how the year always...

Author: By Erinn V. Westbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Harvard, Degree of Fashion Savvy Falls with Temperature | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

Given the spate of costume dramas that have hit the big screen recently, you could be forgiven for failing to distinguish one silk-clad heroine from another. And “The Duchess”—based on the biography of the same name by Amanda Foreman—does little to make the dazzling Georgiana of Devonshire stand out from the crowd. Like “Marie Antoinette” and “The Other Boleyn Girl,” “The Duchess” is a period film about a beautiful, young, aristocratic...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Duchess | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...elegant old colonial home tucked into a back lane in south Mumbai, a fashion party is in full swing. Fey young men in low-slung jeans, willowy models in backless silk dresses and other well turned-out, well traveled Mumbaikars laugh, air-kiss and dance into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street Meltdown: Global Fallout | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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