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...closer look at the swaths of excess. On Chanel's runway, there were tweeds that on closer inspection proved to be feather-light embroidery on tulle; at Dior, there was a flight jacket, loosely inspired by The Aviator, in ruby-red mink trimmed with crocodile, and a trench coat mixing the same exotic materials. "Will we sell the crocodile?" asks Sydney Toledano, Dior's CEO. "Of course. If you are competing based on production and cost, it's tough. If you go with a more unique position, then you can lead. You need to watch the top line, not only...
...closer look at the swathes of excess. On Chanel's runway, there were tweeds that on closer inspection proved to be feather-light embroidery on tulle; at Dior, loose inspiration from The Aviator resulted in a flight jacket in ruby-red mink trimmed with crocodile, and a trench coat mixing the exotic materials. "Will we sell the crocodile?" asks Sydney Toledano, Dior's CEO. "Of course. If you are competing based on production and cost, it's tough. If you go with a more unique position, then you can lead. You need to watch the top line, not only...
...covered it all-the sexual, the political, the spiritual-and made all of these concerns seem like the most natural topics to be singing about. He took Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...
...students of English gardening will know, that's a man-made landscape feature, a trench dug to conceal a fence in order to preserve the view. The nuns have one on the grounds of their convent, which Howie loves to approach at perilous speeds on his tractor mower. We go right to the edge with him, and even if we're not always laughing, we're glad to be along for the ride...
...with slicked black hair and a black leather trench coat over a black shirt and black jeans, Tena hardly looks like he just stepped out of a molecular biology...