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...Drives are organized every two years, taking different routes each time. The next herding adventure is planned between May 5 and June 10, 2007, along the 400-mile Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride across the seemingly endless plains of the South Australian Desert and skirt the vast expanse of Lake Eyre's salt flats. Although cattle are transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes up to six weeks. But relax: only your guides - drawn from the ranks of Australia's last generation of drovers - will...
...herds up to 500 strong. Drives are organized every two years, taking different routes each time. The next herding adventure is planned between May 5 and June 10, 2007, along the 400-mile Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride across the seemingly endless plains of the South Australian Desert and skirt the vast expanse of Lake Eyre's salt flats. Although cattle are transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes up to six weeks. But relax: only your guides - drawn from the ranks of Australia's last...
ONCE UPON A TIME, FASHION WAS A BUSINESS defined solely by creative talent. A bubble skirt, a padlocked handbag or any other commercial success was attributed to the "artiste" who sketched out his or her dreams and somehow, with just a hemline or a dangly tchotchke, was able to seize the zeitgeist and magically send millions of cash registers ringing. Every six months, newspapers and fashion journals would feature quaint headlines announcing the dictates of those creative types?PARIS SAYS PANTS! Nobody paid much attention to the anxious number crunchers in the back offices studiously poring over sales estimates...
Volume explodes in the most unexpected places. This page: Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière silk and velvet embroidered bodice, hand-painted jacquard skirt and leather harness boot (Balenciaga, 212-206-0872); felt hat (Lissilaa, 858-454-0874). Opposite: Lanvin silk organza dress and Swarovski crystal necklace (Barneys New York...
...best worn short and swingy and in some tangy, Day-Glo color like cherry red or peony pink. There is the very short hemline, terrifying for anyone over the age of 30. And there's volume, which seems to appear most frequently as a kind of upside-down tulip skirt or a big puff sleeve...