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...home furnishings follow color trends, so too do perfumes. Or at least that's the way it seems this season with the launch of three new designer fragrances all packaged in pink. Ralph Lauren's new Lauren Style even features pink "juice" inside the bottle. For Dutch design duo Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren's first fragrance, Flowerbomb, the idea is to convey an explosion of flowers. And for Marc Jacobs' second scent, Blush, the name is self- explanatory. Pink isn't the only common message in these bottles--they also all feature floral top notes with heavy accents of jasmine...
Even Helmut Lang, who last week sold the remaining stake in his company to majority owner Prada, went commercial, with a collection of fresh cotton suits and sexy draped and knotted jersey dresses inspired by Greek togas. Viktor & Rolf, the Dutch duo who launched their first perfume, Flowerbomb, with the cosmetics giant L'Oréal, gave the safari jacket and the tuxedo a feminine edge with ribbon trim...
...siege of a hospital in Budennovsk in the Russian region of Stavropol in which 120 people died, discounted religious fervor as Basayev's prime motivation: "He is a man of war." (Kazbek has also since disappeared.) The Budennovsk hospital siege - and the live televised negotiations with then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin - confirmed Basayev as a folk hero back home, showing the embattled Chechens how a lowly boy from Vedeno could make even the Russian PM capitulate...
...Security Council would likely only require Iran to suspend its enrichment activities, much as the IAEA has already done, but with a little more clout. - By Andrew Purvis and Nahid Siamdoust Toxic Politics UKRAINE A criminal inquiry and a parliamentary commission will investigate claims by opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko that he was poisoned. Yushchenko, who is in a close race with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych for elections on Oct. 31, became ill on Sept. 6. Doctors at a Vienna clinic where he underwent tests could neither confirm nor rule out poisoning. Join the Club TURKEY Ankara moved a step...
...move ups the state's 38% stake in Gazprom to a controlling one in the newly formed Gazpromneft, and paves the way for foreign investors' billions to flow into Russia. But Putin apparently announced his plan before his ministers had agreed on its details: Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko cooled expectations, saying that liberalization "doesn't mean the removal of limits." Shortly afterward, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref promised that all restrictions would be lifted. Who's right? "I'd rather give credence to Khristenko's stance as more realistic," says Mikhail Zadornov, former Finance...