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...Legroom may be compromised during budget or charter flights, but squeezing more seats on board reduces each flier's share of an aircraft's fuel load and greenhouse-gas emissions. While a charter and a scheduled flight each burns around a ton of fuel traveling between London and Malaga, Spain, for example, charter planes can pack in around 16% more seats, lowering the fuel used per passenger by a similar amount. Find taking connecting flights to be a waste of time? Flying direct is more than just convenient. With the intense fuel burn of take-off and landing cycles generating...
...single interview, Cristóbal Balenciaga created a revolution with his subtle hand and rigorous tailoring. So flattering were the cut and construction of his clothes that Diana Vreeland once declared, "In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room." Born in a small Basque village in Spain in 1895, Balenciaga worked in his mother's seamstress shop and found his first client at 13 when a local countess permitted him to copy one of her couture dresses. She later paid his way to Madrid for formal training. By 1919 Balenciaga had his own couture salons in San Sebastian...
This year alone BCBG opened stores in New York City (where there will be five by the end of the year); Indianapolis, Ind.; Charlotte, N.C.; Bordeaux, France; Valencia, Spain; and Athens, among other cities. Still to come: Albuquerque, N.M.; Woodland, Texas; Wailea, Hawaii; the Virgin Islands; Lisbon; Brussels; and more. "The world map looks smaller than ever before. In 2007 Europe will be very big. We're accelerating that, based on my acquisition of strategic brands," says Azria, referring to designer retailers Alain Manoukian and Don Algodôn and French couturier Hervé Léger. "We're fantastic in Asia because...
...color in 1907. Brands like Helena Rubinstein and Estée Lauder were founded on skin-care formulas based on East European traditions. More recently, big beauty conglomerates such as L'Oréal and Estée Lauder have been shopping for new, innovative brands in old, familiar places like France, Spain and Germany. Even mass-market retailers like Walgreens are looking to capitalize on the niche market for novel, pharmacy-distributed products...
...loyalists were upset when he once more forcefully backed a deeply unpopular Bush policy: refusing to criticize Israel's strategy or tactics in Lebanon or call for an immediate cease-fire. Blair's transformation today into official lame duck means all the European leaders who backed the Iraq war - Spain's Jose Maria Aznar, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and Poland's Leszek Miller - have paid the ultimate political price...