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...featuring three heavyweights of the Paris fashion world: Valentino, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, and Christian Lacroix.Unlike Galliano, Valentino’s clothes are not conceptual; they focus instead on feminine details like ruffles, bows, and beading. Chanel, the epitome of Parisian fashion, appropriately stands center stage. In a nice touch, each piece includes a note on how many hours of labor went into handcrafting each garment.One evening dress of silk tulle and ostrich feathers with a hand-beaded bustier and bolero required 980 hours of embroidery alone.Lacroix, another couture icon, is a wise conclusion to the show. His Spanish-inspired...
...BlackJack was a bit of a letdown too. When it comes to managing personal e-mail, it can't touch T-Mobile's BlackBerry Pearl, and as far as the glitzy marketing campaign ("compact 3G PDA that can do it all"), just remember that it still runs on the cumbersome, unresponsive Windows Mobile platform. Many Windows Mobile devices have crossed my path of late, and none of them have been worth discussing at length. No, the smarter of Cingular's offerings tend to leave me dumb. It's the Sync, a jam-packed regular phone, that has held my attention...
...final straw for al-Maliki may be the fact that the guarantors of his power - the Bush administration - have lost confidence in him. Reports on Wednesday say National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told Bush in a classified memo that the Iraqi Prime Minister was isolated, out of touch with reality and unable to affect the course of events...
...only person who's gone on record with any public anger at McEwan is Andrews' former agent, Vanessa Holt. "I was very angry about it," she told the Daily Mail. "I felt that it was at the very least discourteous of Ian McEwan not to have been in touch with Lucilla - extremely discourteous...
...letter also goes to the director of graduate studies in the department and to a designated associate of the Bok Center, and suggests that the TF be in touch with that person for retraining,” Gross wrote in an e-mail...