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...just the clothes that are socially conscious. Its line of Inara spa products is produced by women's cooperatives in the remote state of Maranhão in northeastern Brazil, and its amethyst-and-garnet geometric drop earrings are made at a Nepalese technical school in a community consisting largely of underprivileged families from the lower castes. The workers at one of the company's small Costa Rican cooperatives?where each sewer and cutter of the brand's twill pants and chinos helps make financial decisions?turned an exceptional profit last year and were able to give themselves a bonus...
...proposals have also drawn fierce opposition from those who argue that the state should not be diverting more resources to charter schools. "The first charters were similar to magnet schools - the school served a specific purpose in a specific location," says Garnet Coleman, a state legislator from Houston. "In my opinion, charters were started as election tools for the 2002 gubernatorial election...
...FLORAL JEWELRY When it comes to precious stones, everything's coming up flowers, from Dior's blossom-shaped kunzite earrings and Kwiat's brooch bouquet blooming with pink tourmaline petals and garnet pistils to a Vera Wang 18-karat white gold brooch boutonniere and a Van Cleef & Arpels clip budding with yellow gold and pink sapphires...
...Applied Arts Mini Boden corduroys and sweaters have appliqu?d details, as do wool slippers from Garnet Hill, above...
...Stitch in Time ... The handcrafted look has trickled down from high-fashion runways to the kids' clothing business, turning up in catalogs like Mini Boden (boden.co.uk), where appliqu?d sweaters ($54) and cords ($45) have a hippie vibe. At Garnet Hill (garnethill.com), T shirts and shoes get the appliqu? treatment, and stitched slippers resemble animals...