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...More cost-efficient ways to cut the metal were developed after golfers clamored for titanium clubs in the mid-'90s, and now you can buy titanium binoculars, phones and strollers. The metal encases the new IBM ThinkPad X Series and the Macintosh PowerBook G4, which besides making both look sleek is thought to protect against data loss, since titanium is almost nonmagnetic. Alas, Gehry may have moved on. Asked to build a new branch of the Guggenheim, he warned museum-board members not to "fix" themselves on titanium...
Architectural tradition, master builder I.M. Pei once said, is a living force that animates the present. For the Shanghai relatives of the man who created the Louvre's pyramids and Hong Kong's sleek Bank of China building, that tradition is rooted at 25 Huangpi South Road, where five generations of the Pei family have made their home since 1911. During his student years in that rollicking city, the budding architect visited the graceful three-story mansion often and drew inspiration from its French colonial touches and lush gardens. "This house holds my family's soul," says Pei's cousin...
...first place. Cerebral and reserved, Slimane couldn't be more dissimilar to Galliano, the buoyant, effusive man who has spent the last four years tearing down the image of Dior and rebuilding to fit a vision uniquely his own. Slimane achieved fame in fashion circles in 1996 with his sleek, sexy designs for the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche men's label. His clothes are unique in men's wear-slim leather coats, narrow suits and sheer shirts-subtle and elegant pieces that focus more on the cut than on styling flourishes. Critics labeled him either modern or feminine...
...Slimane's first task was to design his own office and atelier-sleek and modern with hidden tall narrow doorways and wood floors and just down the street from the historical home of Christian Dior and Galliano's team. Next, he produced ads featuring a black-and-white portrait of a young, bare-chested boy shot by Richard Avedon. And by the end of 2001, the first Dior Homme stores will open. Rarely, if ever, will the men's and women's clothes hang side by side. "All they share is a logo and the color gray," Toledano says...
Last summer Shaggy released Hotshot, a sleek confection of R.-and-B.-tinged reggae, to scant attention. But he has since pulled off a coup that few reggae artists have ever achieved. Steadily pushing his way up the pop chart, he has knocked off one blockbuster after another: Limp Bizkit, Nelly, Creed, even the Beatles. Finally, this week he passed Jennifer Lopez, making him the first reggae artist ever to top the pop charts since Shabba Ranks in 1991. His accomplishment is all the more remarkable because it's the sort of breakout that has attracted buyers from 12-year...