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Prada's penchant for mixing luxurious traditional fabrics with new high-tech fibers has been consistent over the past decade, but from season to season, her eye will veer from very traditional fabrics like duchess satin to something unconventional like the novelty fabrics she used in the early 1990s when mills were introducing technology from the athletic-wear industry. But in Prada's hands even those fabrics were not used in a traditional way: nylon replaced leather for bags; it became shiny, luxurious and embroidered for evening coats; or it was woven with purer yarns like cashmere to give...
...mills developing first a very fine thread and then a computer-graphic print that was inspired by images of 18th century ruins. Using pixelated computer screen grabs, she reprinted copies of the original images onto faille and brocade, giving them a moiré effect. The final print had a high-tech feeling, but the fabric was traditional...
Denver has also lost its shine as an employment engine. Although economists are predicting 40,000 new jobs this year regionwide, Colorado still has a way to go to replace the 100,000 topflight postings plowed under during the tech bust a few years back. One consequence of slow job growth: Denver is among the nation's leaders in home foreclosures...
Kajeet and others see a market in driving wireless tech to the SpongeBob set. Hatched in 2003, Kajeet has spent the past few years doing homework on what kids want and how to offer it safely and affordably. Early on, Neal and his two partners, all dads with young kids, decided to keep things simple. There would be no contracts or cancellation fees, just a pay-as-you-go service through the Sprint Nextel network on a handful of phones priced from...
...invasion in 1968. "I didn't have more time to live under a dictatorship," he says. As it would turn out, he also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years it has produced new stores for Comme des Garçons in Paris, New York City and Tokyo, tableware and other design items for Alessi...