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PARIS Bottega Veneta's Continental ($510) in signature woven leather also passes as a chic clutch...
...Pelletteria Bottega Veneta, to train future employees. From perfectly blended stripes on a handbag to shoes, bomber jackets and even a floor lamp seamlessly encased in leather, intrecciato shows up in every category of the Bottega Veneta brand. Even the house's 18 karat-gold fine jewelry is painstakingly woven by hand...
...Upon moving to Jakarta at 14, she began collecting traditional fabrics, as well as picking up know-how from the artisans she bought them off. Not long after, Obin started designing patterns herself, and experimenting with techniques of producing batik, including the use of hand-woven silk instead of the usual cottons. When, at the age of 31, she finally opened a small outlet for her designs in central Jakarta, she became an immediate hit among the élite neighborhood's well-off shoppers. "Obin led a revolution in modernizing batik by translating traditional motifs into contemporary design," explains leading...
...might be satirized on, well, The Office. Even Begley--formerly of St. Elsewhere--notes that the movie Chinatown worked because it kept the subplot about the water supply in Los Angeles well in the background: "It's a story about getting away with murder, and the water story is woven...
Something woven so tightly into the genome is not likely to be shaken loose by a few thousand years of modern living. But that doesn't mean every person with eccentric traits--the woman in the office next to yours who keeps her desk impeccably neat and gets edgy if something is moved out of place, for example--has OCD. "Having these OCD-like traits is a universal experience," says Judith Rapoport, author of the landmark book The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing and chief of child psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health. "I sometimes count...