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...Faust is that she has spent her entire adult life as an active scholar. She is not a long-time administrator like Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was. Her scholarship was not mixed with public service or a Brahmin legal career. She is a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue, one-hundred-percent academic, who has spent her life creating knowledge and disseminating it through writing and teaching...
Alvelda's office resembles that of a physics prof: shelves stacked with books, galaxy screen saver on the desktop--even the whiteboard scrawl. Alvelda's excitable demeanor and wool sweater also serve the scene, as does his stellar résumé, which lists degrees from M.I.T. and jobs with NASA and the Defense Department. But signs of accomplishment--the Emmy on his desk, framed patents and a photo with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger--bespeak a former government technologist who isn't afraid to show off a little...
...Simons registered this change most notably with his pared-down Jil Sander collection of strict capes and coats worn over stovepipe-slim black pants. Miuccia Prada also turned her back on traditional notions of luxury, replacing last year's opulent long-haired furs with shaggy mohair coats and matted-wool twinsets. Even designers who are not minimalists at heart, like Donatella Versace, toned it down with classic black and gray coats and suits punctuated with an occasional flash of turquoise or tomato...
...sure, fabric can't talk or cause a scandal or convulse the blogosphere. And maybe there is something fusty and old hat in caring too much about the provenance of a silk shantung or getting all weak-kneed about a suit made of cellophane-backed wool. But the art of couture glamour is ultimately about the connoisseurship of material, and there have always been designers who knew this and obsessively attended to the fabric of fashion...
Indeed, Italy's mills?from the silk manufacturers of Como to the wool and sportswear producers of Tuscany and the cashmere and menswear fabric mills of Biella?are Europe's largest producers of luxury textiles. And, along with the Japanese, Italians are considered among the greatest fabric innovators. "They innovate by constantly looking outside their industry for ideas," says Angelo Uslenghi, a Milan-based textile cool hunter. "There is not much new you can do to yarns and weaves, but you can look outside the textile industry at other industries such as fine jewelry where they use techniques like filigree...