Word: yves
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...though you wouldn't know this to wear it. The chemical treatment is done when the raw cashmere is first washed (to make it soft for knitting), so there's no discernible difference--until you flick water at it and watch the droplets run off. INVENTOR Lutz & Patmos, with Yves Behar AVAILABILITY Now, in two new styles, $850 and $1,075 TO LEARN MORE www.lutzandpatmos.com...
...FABULOUS YVES SAINT LAURENT RIVE GAUCHE'S black silk skirt with velvet detail. Perfect for an art-gallery fund raiser...
...reduce weight and thus fuel consumption. As designers explore other uses, recycled beer can handbags can't be far off. - By Kate Noble ADVERTISING A Naked Bid for Attention Break out the champagne, get out the party lights, strike up the band - the last taboo has finally been broken. Yves Saint Laurent, under creative director Tom Ford, has produced the world's first advertisement with full-frontal male nudity. The bits in question belong not to Ford but to former martial arts champion Samuel de Cubber. Ford calls it a "very academic nude," and says it is meant...
...museum announced last spring that its largest exhibition devoted to a single designer would celebrate Versace, the fashion press asked: "Why?" The V&A's reply - that this year marks the fifth anniversary of Versace's murder - seemed less than convincing. There were other, more compelling milestones. For example, Yves Saint Laurent - a designer who did far more than Versace to change the way women dress - recently retired. Might not a retrospective have been in order? The most likely explanation for the V&A show is that Versace's shimmering, flamboyant designs are guaranteed crowd pleasers in a way that...
...Swiss recruited hundreds of thousands of unskilled foreign workers to fill low-paying jobs. By the 1990s, there were approximately 500,000 living permanently in Switzerland. When the crunch came, even though overall unemployment remained low at 2.6%, "a large number of poorly qualified people lost their jobs," says Yves Fl?ckiger, who studies poverty trends at the University of Geneva. To slow immigration, the Justice Ministry has proposed a draft law that would limit work permits primarily to highly skilled E.U. nationals. Though there is no national minimum wage, welfare payments administered by individual municipalities are available to the needy...