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Back in April 2006, when we published the first green-themed issue of TIME STYLE & DESIGN, a special supplement to TIME, we rather boldly proclaimed that sustainability was the new luxury. Admittedly, it was a stretch to speak of luxury goods and sustainability in the same breath. At the time, only a handful of major luxury companies had embraced environmental issues, and designers like Stella McCartney, who has always avoided leather even when It bags boosted the bottom line, were regarded as slightly off-kilter. Just three years later, McCartney's profits have increased 600%, companies as diverse as eBay...
...Bacon didn't simply unload his grief. He used it to find his way to the even bleaker abbreviations of a pitiless world he produced in the 1970s. Dyer's grotesque end--he was found dead on the toilet from a drug overdose--stands behind these paintings, but they speak to you about more universal miseries. This is the thing so compelling about Bacon, the sense he produces that the suffering is ferocious but the sufferer is dry-eyed...
...shower. (Speak for yourself...
...food crises are low, we can’t lose sight of the underlying problem of persistent hunger,” he said. When asked about ways to tackle the issue of global hunger on a local level, Zucker said, “Individuals need to be the voice. Speak loudly...
...Lario, 52, a former B-movie actress, is usually invisible on the public stage, rarely seen by her husband's side and keeping mum on the political issues of the day. But when she does speak up, Lario exercises her First Lady powers in another way: rather than try to bump up her husband's poll numbers with public charm or policy advice, she cuts him down with character attacks that stick in a way Berlusconi's many public critics wish they could match...