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Jewels played a crucial role in Chemirik's childhood. There was his family's gold belt, scattered with diamonds and emeralds, traditionally worn at weddings. And his mother was "crazy about rings," naming each one after the city it came from ("It was, 'Give me Paris. Hand over Istanbul...
...breed of tailor. His Savile Row--inspired style inarguably leans toward the Brit-rocker persuasion?these definitely aren't the proper suits a barrister would wear to the office. But there's something incredibly chic about Quinn's look, especially out of an English context, when worn in the good old U.S.A. With stores in New York City and Los Angeles already under his belt, Quinn is digging deeper into the heart of the country, with a new location opening next month in Dallas. In addition to his hipster suits, Quinn offers up all the accoutrements one needs...
...fancy window treatments with them. But in more refined materials like gold or silver, tassels take on a whole new look. Just in time for the holiday season, jeweler David Yurman, best known for his signature twisted-cable designs, introduces several styles of tassels, including semiprecious pendants to be worn on long chains. As a singular accessory they make a bold statement, but incorporated into a pile of necklaces they take on the season's biggest fine-jewelry trend: layers upon layers of chains and beads...
...while some authors travel the worn path of recycling well-known protagonists, some of the best are the more daring, which experiment with giving their secondary characters lead roles, such as the gritty “Epitaph,” a true standout that avoids the typecasting that plagues so many of the other stories in this volume...
...that the issue was not an immediate priority - was still a bit naive to Roman customs. But it is evidence of a more open intellectual climate under Benedict. And so with Ratzinger, who was perhaps the best-known modern Cardinal to become Pope, there is another bit of well-worn Roman wisdom to ponder: every papacy - like creation itself - is a work in progress...