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Brands like J. Crew and Gap are turning out plenty of board skirts, pajama pants and sarongs, but this summer's blockbuster trend in cover-ups is the tunic, a variation--beaded, embroidered or printed--on the Indian kurta. It's a look that started on high-fashion runways for spring 2005. Designers as diverse as Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors and Narciso Rodriguez all showed embroidered tunics inspired by favorite destinations like Santorini or St. Bart...
...With his jaunty, Bollywood-style haircut and white embroidered tunic, Mirwais looks as though he would warble like a pretty songbird, but his singing is forceful and worldly, as if he has already seen it all. And he has. Tonight, he croons folksongs of impossible love, betrayal and heroism that flow from the depths of Afghanistan's tragic history. Under a nebula of hashish smoke, two men leap up to dance, circling each other like angry cobras. They turn aggressive and are pulled apart?even the boy's mesmerizing song cannot keep Afghans from fighting for long. When performances...
...Whiling away an afternoon on the terrace is a pleasant diversion from shopping for handicrafts. It also offers a chance to bump into celeb guests like Bollywood star Danny Dengzopa or the Dalai Lama. The Dragon Bar, replete with a barman in a black hat and a red silk tunic, also serves a mean gin and tonic-as long as it isn't one of the state's dry days...
...Ying, 24, who had been fighting with the communists since he was 13, seated Mao in the former emperor's waiting room and fetched him a bowl of apples. There Guo learned that Mao, in his haste, had forgotten the ribbon that each new communist leader pins to his tunic...
...other words, Hollywood thinks Jet Li is the new Bruce Lee. In the Jetster's major-studio debut, Lethal Weapon 4, Mel Gibson glanced at Li's designer tunic and cracked, "Nice pajamas, Bruce." In Cradle, Li still has to fend off references to Hong Kong's seminal martial artist, who died 30 years ago. An angry dwarf threatens to have his henchmen "kick your ass, Bruce." Li's response may be directed as much to his bosses as to the dwarf: "I'm not Bruce," he says wearily...