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Jonathan Safran Foer hasn't always been like this. "I was a flamboyant child," he says. "I used to wear, like, very crazy outfits all the time--bow ties, big blazers, glittery stuff. I was a little mini-Liberace." Not anymore. Foer is so buttoned-down and serious he makes Philip Roth look like Andre...
...Decked out in an appropriate costume?he'll wear Spanish-colonial garb for a walk around the old quarter of Intramuros, but don lurid bell bottoms for a tour of the 1970s Cultural Center of the Philippines?Celdran offers up rich narratives that are by turns gossipy (his account of Imelda Marcos' rise and fall is hilarious) and compelling (the description of a bombed-out Manila, at the end of World War II, is unforgettable). They're also filled with the kind of insight that only a native raconteur can provide?Celdran is Manila-born, and with his Spanish, Chinese...
...national obsession with uniforms. It is also, considering Bangkok's sexual notoriety, a surprisingly prudish place. Soap operas are so straitlaced that they cannot broach the topic of "minor wives," as mistresses are euphemistically known. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Culture (a Thaksin-era invention) pesters young women who wear skimpy clothes during the annual Songkran water-splashing festival, even though "traditional" Thai women wore even less. This public puritanism explains the enduring popularity of the demure "sniff kiss," which Cornwel-Smith terms "the Thai way to reach first base...
...have anything to wear with yellow? Then maybe you?like everyone else?should buy one of the ubiquitous LiveStrong awareness wristbands, launched by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Nike last May to raise money for cancer research. The bright yellow, $1 rubber bracelets have become a fashion icon, adorning the wrists of more than 21 million people worldwide, from actress Pamela Anderson to U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry. Numerous other charities are now following suit with wristbands of their own?so many that the number of causes has surpassed the available colors, requiring some shades to do double duty. Green...
Even in Valvo's Collection line, which makes up 75% of his profit, underpinnings are key. One $390 beaded-lace skirt features a pleated-tulle petticoat. When celebrities do wear Valvo--Catherine Zeta-Jones; Beyonce, to meet Nelson Mandela in South Africa--they trade on his style, not his name. "There's an incredible simplicity to the lines but an impact and glamour you don't find a lot of places," says stylist Nick Steele, who has dressed Claire Danes and Radha Mitchell in Valvo's looks. Valvo, who spends four months of each year traveling to meet current...