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Like Prada, there are a handful of designers over the past decade who have made headlines with fabric. In the mid-1990s, Helmut Lang and Jil Sander started incorporating techno-fabrics like nylon and carbon into more traditional weaves, giving them a lighter hand or a three-dimensional quality. They pushed the boundaries, often employing far-out materials like rubber and plastic. More recently, Alexander McQueen has expressed a ghostly romantic vibe with fine spiderweb netting. Francisco Costa has been playing with perforated latex and stretch scuba at Calvin Klein. And at Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld reintroduced the idea of rubber...
...sense of humor and his rebellious attitude revealed a man who refused to let go of his youthful, rebellious spirit throughout his entire life. Your story said he was "an outspoken teenager who never quite grew up." Who ever said that was a shortcoming? Tolulope Ogunlesi Lagos German Chancellor Helmut Kohl undoubtedly brought together East and West Germany, but George H.W. Bush's description of him "as the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" shows a degree of naiveté. Kohl was yet one more politician who wanted to leave his mark on history...
...Romeo" spies, handsome men who would befriend lonely secretaries working for senior officials and spymasters. Immensely patient, he would carefully help direct his plants to jobs where they could be increasingly valuable. One "Romeo" spy worked her way, after a long career, into the office of the German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Wolf mused in retirement that "if I go down in espionage history, it may well be for perfecting the use of sex in spying...
...overtook Mercedes-Benz last year as the car industry's top-selling premium brand. In keeping with BMW's unwritten age limit of 60, production boss Reithofer will replace CEO Helmut Panke on Sept. 1, the day after Panke's 60th birthday. Reithofer obviously has a tough act to follow, since the company expects to top its 2004 record net profit of $2.7 billion. Reithofer has been the keeper of BMW's flexible production system, considered a model for the car industry. The former head of BMW's South Carolina plant, he is more than familiar with the U.S. market...
...political journalists who might be allowed to mourn the passing of Europe's old political style. In the past, Europe's politics were sufficiently technicolor that they threw up leaders who dreamed big dreams: Margaret Thatcher, determined to reverse Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors, bludgeoning the member states of the European Union into taking seriously their promise to forge an ever closer union; Václav Havel, insisting that Europe was a single moral and political space that should never again be divided into...