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...London, a sleek boutique based in fashionable Islington. Palette offers a "finder service" for shoppers from all over the world; owner Mark Ellis boasts that he can track down just about any vintage garment or accessory. Supply Ellis with your measurements and the details of the '60s Ossie Clark trouser suit or turn-of-the-century silk kimono you're after, and he'll comb his network of 50 vintage dealerships across the globe. Once he's found the garment - which can take from a few weeks to several years, depending on its rarity - Ellis will e-mail...
...visit Hong Kong, Lisbon and Los Angeles. A co-production of the Istanbul Theater Festival, Nefes is a three-hour show based on three weeks that Bausch and her 30 dancers spent in Istanbul, roaming the city's markets, back streets and waterfronts. Dressed typically in a classic black trouser suit, hair pulled back tightly into a bun, Bausch is still every inch the ballerina. Her long, slim fingers are rarely without a cigarette or cup of black coffee. Even after hundreds of sold out performances in the world's most prestigious venues, she is unable to eat or drink...
...answer, obviously, is with teeth-rattling, trouser-flapping, hip-shaking percussion. From the outset of the show, Air’s intentions were clear. “Venus,” which on Air’s most recent album Talkie Walkie is a stately, composed piano march, became something propulsive, swelling in emotion, building in intensity, rhythmically thrusting until…well, let’s not get carried away here...
...reader learn about skies "the color of cold tea" and endlessly shape-shifting weather. They find their way around places where the wet heat falls on you "like a barber's towel," where a meticulous local looks like a man "who spent his formative years in a trouser press" and where a cagey old woman brushes off Dollar's suspicious flatteries with "I have discovered that young men's blandishments are simply too much...
Andrew Marshall is the author of The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Counterpoint...