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...Y YSL When Italian-born designer Stefano Pilati stepped into his boss Tom Ford's shoes at the venerable French house of Yves Saint Laurent, the fashion pack wasn't sure what to expect. Three seasons later, Pilati has put the iconic brand back on the style map with cutting-edge ideas and a slew of hot accessories, including this season's must-have purple suede or leopard-print platform shoes. Next up in the Pilati look book: matador style, as in ruffled collars, high-waisted pants and a blood red?based color palette...
...Maybe this show has too many ideas, since it is also broken into four seasons: Spring (the early years), Summer (the hit years), Fall (the, y' know, fall from hitmakers to nobodies) and Winter (death, the fourth season for us all, and transfiguration). Since life doesn't always accommodate melodrama, some events, like the death of Valli's daughter from a drug overdose, get pushed out of their proper time frame...
...viewing sessions in Loker Commons, and more recently a freshman-only pre-party before last Thursday’s pep rally. “We’re trying really hard to offer more social outlets for the freshman class,” says FYSC Chair Zachary A. Y. Pollinger ’09. “There is need for improvement, but I think that there’s a good amount of stuff going on right now.”According to Pollinger, the FYSC has been tossing around several ideas for possible upcoming events, including a Spring...
...week’s issue of the scientific journal “Cell,” a mutation in a single gene that controls production of the protein stathmin can embolden mice to make them more willing to explore and less likely to fear painful or dangerous stimuli. Vadim Y. Bolshakov—director of McLean Hospital’s Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—said that the study’s findings could serve as a launching point for research in psychiatric medicine. “Stathmin...
Detached fingers molded of brilliant orange silicone stretch upwards from amid the gray-brown clutter of Jessica Y. Yin ’01’s sculpture table. “My project is based on the idea of modularity of the body,” Yin, a fourth year Graduate School of Design (GSD) student, explains as she globs more silicone onto several damaged fingers. Her classmates are similarly engaged: Dismembered plaster torsos, a plump balloon-hand dripping silicone, and strangely solitary feet and toes litter the studio floor.Surrounded by severed body parts, the students of VES 130r...