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...1960s and tweaking them with just a touch of the avant garde. Rising-star designers like Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga and the supremely talented Junya Watanabe, a protégé of Rei Kawakubo, both mixed the past with the present - showing shrunken jackets over full, tulip-shaped skirts, or, in Watanabe's case, pumping up the strictly tailored 1950s couture jacket by cutting it from down-filled nylon. Watanabe called his clothes "classic in all senses, regardless of the period." And his mix of hip-hop inspired baggy denim and snug jackets - cut to resemble Christian Dior...
...vintage garb and shoes alongside co-owner Emma Fletcher's Lyell line of "vintage-inspired clothes." A circa 1960 Kelly green butterfly-print dress by Japanese designer Hanae Mori and a '70s-era black pleated skirt with a red Provencal-print border hang beside Fletcher's new collection of tulip-print, silk-chiffon tie blouses, velvet jackets lined in silk and '40s-style dresses (the designer's personal favorite: a black silk-and-wool number with deer-shaped cutouts just below the collarbone...
...baby girls is that many villages and towns lack brides for their young men. (In one of the film's sequences, a village patriarch pays dearly to marry his son off to a heavily veiled stranger who is ultimately revealed as a man.) So when the beautiful Kalki (Tulip Joshi) reaches a marriageable age and her father demands 100,000 rupees for his prize, a village father pays him 500,000 to make her the wife of all five of his grown sons. Each son will have one night a week with her, and father will have...
...serious gardeners as well as apartment dwellers with teeny window boxes, planting bulbs is one of autumn's sweetest pleasures. And just like fall fashions, bulbs are subject to crazes (as in the Dutch tulip bubble, circa 1630). Horticultural gurus say that this season, black, orange and fragrant bulbs are the ones to plant. While a truly black tulip has not yet been created, Black Hero (a deep crimson, below) and Black Parrot (a dark maroon) come close. If you want aroma and color, try Orange Princess or candy-striped Carnaval de Nice. Most bulbs can be bought from online...
...property development in the Chinese rust-belt city of Shenyang, agri-business tycoon Yang Bin decided he wanted the large greenhouses nearby filled with flora so visitors would get the impression the project was on track. Yang's farm experts protested there was no way to grow the requested tulip and orchid plants that quickly. Undeterred, Yang went out and bought them from local farmers, replanted them in the greenhouses and passed them off as his own. "If you work for a guy like this," says one of Yang's managers, "he pulls you from one surprise to the next...