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...together. He came up with the trapeze, a dress that by dint of its intricate silk, tulle and horsehair-hemmed organza underskirts seemed to float away from the body as if by magnetic force. It was a sensation. The fashion press, not given to understatement even in 1958, proclaimed, "Yves Saint Laurent has saved France." A new design legend had arrived...
...INVENTORS Johan Liden and Yves Behar, Fuse Project --AVAILABILITY In 2003, for $500 to $800 --TO LEARN MORE Visit fuseproject.com...
Fleming, accompanied by her long-time collaborator Jean-Yves Thibaudet, sang at Symphony Hall last Friday night to promote her newly-released album, Night Songs. The performance was well-recieved, but it wasn’t until Fleming began her encores—no less than five—that she came into...
...youngsters acquiring? Computerized 3-D animation? Some slick new graphics software? Think again. Like generations before them in the high mountain valleys of the Swiss Jura, Sandra and Bastien are discovering the intricacies of mechanical watchmaking. "Forty years ago, people were learning exactly the same thing," says their teacher Yves Antoniotti. "Some of the technology has evolved, but the basic techniques remain unchanged." Techniques like hand-polishing screw-heads until they gleam like mirrors, or grinding axle-ends down to a 10th of a millimeter using miniature lathes. And the young apprentices are also assimilating that other cardinal virtue...
...Winners NOR MALENA HASSAN Malaysian sets record by spending a month in a cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come...