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...that age. Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada are among the fashion powers touting the look in recent collections, tying ribbons onto blouses, dresses and shoes. Popular downmarket retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) and other mainstream mall outlets have also appropriated the ribbon theme for everything from belts to tank tops. Whether tying them in bows or leaving them to dangle like streamers, designers use these broad bands in every color--including, of course, basic black. "Details like ribbons make women feel playful and young," says Amy Tan, a fashion stylist and clothing designer...
...gaudy and growing list of tourist attractions. Already under construction is the world's first commercial magnetically-levitated train line. Shanghai also aims to develop the world's tallest building by 2007, and last week, the city was reportedly close to landing a deal for a Universal Studios theme park. But Beijingers can still sneer at Shanghai's latest coup. The Expo ain't the Olympics. The 2000 Expo in Hanover lost $1 billion due to a shortage of visitors, and some fear the venerable exhibition is becoming an anachronism. Shanghai officials are jubilant nonetheless. The city attracted nearly...
DIED. BUDDY KAYE, 84, songwriter who collaborated on such hits as Till the End of Time, one of Perry Como's signature numbers, and 'A'--You're Adorable; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He also co-wrote the perky theme song for TV's I Dream of Jeannie...
...post--Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker's fantasy novel Abarat...
...high number of penalties was made more unbearable by the choice of accompanying music—the theme from Law and Order on Friday night and the Diana King classic “Bad Boys” on Saturday. Though clever and amusing the first time, the ditties became irritating when the penalty numbers hit double digits...