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...looking at those fabrics is like looking into fashion's crystal ball, especially if you are a designer like Prada, who is widely considered one of the most adventurous when it comes to how far she will push the textile mills in new directions. She loves to tell the story of kid mohair, a kind of plush, teddy-bear-like pile fabric that was considered completely uncommercial before she used it in a menswear collection for spring 2002. "I was forbidden to use it," she says with a laugh, "and of course, it became a best seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miuccia Prada's Material World | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...successful, powerful women who would be incensed by your characterization. Nowak in no way represents average, hardworking women, and for your writer to use her behavior as an excuse to demean women is just plain wrong. Just take a look at the way our male politicians are behaving, and tell me that they are not the ones misbehaving at their peril. Katie McGuire Danville, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Japanese workplace. The confident and capable Haruko, played by the 33-year-old actress Ryoko Shinohara, makes more than the average part-timer but still has to put condescending co-workers in their place-onscreen justice for Japan's downtrodden real-life temps. "It feels good to see Haruko tell full-timers things that you cannot say face to face," says fan Kaoru Ishizaki, a former temp herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temps in Prime Time | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...last August, it has played Johannesburg and Cape Town, and is now set for runs in Liberia, the Balkans and Northern Ireland, before ending up way off Broadway at the basement Colonnades Theater Lab in New York City. Director and Colonnades founder Michael Lessac says his aim is to tell the story of an "evolutionary step for humanity," a time when South Africa did "something that no other country in the world has ever done: forgave the past to survive the future." With music by Hugh Masekela, a cast that includes some of South Africa's leading actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting Bygones Be Bygones | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Nicole Kidman tell each other the best New Zealander jokes, like, ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 2007 | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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