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...Clearly, dresses from Pucci and Diane von Furstenberg aren't shredder bound. But who are their likely buyers? "Women looking for value for money," Farquhar says. "People who want something different to express their individual style, who like mixing pieces together." Women who initially come in attracted by the new fair-trade labels are buying used items, too, she says. So far, secondhand merchandise accounts for half the shop's sales. On a recent weekday morning, a range of shoppers, young and old, came in to browse or buy. Twentysomething Caroline Dunlevy, who was making her second visit since...
...alive, would you like to spend a lunch dishing fashion ideas? -Milo Keilo, MILILANI, HAWAIIOh, the first really seminal designer of the 20th century: Coco Chanel. That would be some lunch. If it were a living designer, there's no one more fabulous to have lunch with than Diane von Furstenberg...
...geriatric care to supplement his meager welfare stipend, and in his spare time enjoyed an occasional beer at the pub. Last Saturday, though, a moment of vandalism turned Frank L. into something of a national hero, mentioned by some in the same breath as the legendary Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who led a failed assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944. Frank L. accomplished his extraordinary rise from obscurity to national celebrity through a simple act of decapitation...
...action, many Germans expressed admiration for his attack. One commentator raved, "75 years after the 'seizure of power' and 63 years after the end of the Third Reich, finally an assassination attempt against Hitler succeeded ... a 41 year-old Berliner accomplished what Johann Georg Elser, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ... and many others paid with their lives: he decapitated Hitler..." Even the policeman answering the questions of the gathered journalists at the scene of the crime couldn't suppress a gleeful smile when he announced: "Speaking as a human being, the attack was successful...
...Tayfun Kaleci, a young, well-built fan outside an all-night Turkish bakery grinned at a parade of noisily honking cars cruising by after midnight. Turkey was the better team, he says. But in the final, he knows he'll be rooting for Germany - "Definitely!" -With reporting by Olga von Schubert/Kreuzberg