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...been a year of major fashion anniversaries, what with Valentino celebrating 45 years in business last summer in Rome, and the house of Dior feting their 60th the same week at Versailles. But last night Ralph Lauren topped them all with his elegant and spectacular 40th-anniversary show and black tie dinner in Central Park's Conservancy garden. To the strains of the score of My Fair Lady, guests - over 400 of them - floated down the garden stairs into a pristine white tent edged in crisp black. The structure could have been a harbinger of Lauren's Spring 2008 show...
...ubiquitous billionaire Steve Schwartzman. Was that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tapping his foot to Frank Sinatra's "The Best Is Yet to Come" as Ralph strolled the runway, taking in the standing ovation and embracing friends and family? You bet. And the best was yet to come: as Lauren grabbed his wife, Ricky, and headed off-stage, the painted backdrop - a reproduction of a Jean-Gabriel Domergue painting, "Barbara Au Derby" - lifted to reveal the evening's real masterpiece, a twilight garden scene complete with chandeliers, fountain, waiters in white tie and clouds of hydrangea. "This is my idea...
...Valentino's departure represents a poignant passing of an enduring fashion generation which includes Yves Saint Laurent who retired in 2002, and Emanuel Ungaro, who sold his house and retired soon after in 2004, and it also points to designers like Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren, who have created enduring fashion empires and who are nearing retirement...
...Friday night. Late in the game, the Crimson found itself in a position familiar from the 2006 campaign—on the losing end of a closely fought match. The Hawks had shown off their own impressive freshman in the first half, as Michelle Orelli beat standout sophomore goalie Lauren Mann to put Hartford up heading into the break. Kuzma scored off a corner kick in the 86th minute to tie a game that the Hawks seemed on their way to winning. Facing the deficit, Harvard adopted a more offensive style, throwing everything it had into Hartford's defensive half...
...junior Sasha Ermakov took a resounding first step toward a strong 2007-08 campaign by winning the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s 2007 Summer Championships last week in Bloomington, Ind. With the tournament victory, Kumar and Ermakov qualify for a wild-card birth in the 2007 Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships in early October. On its way to victory, the Crimson pair beat opponents that gave the Harvard team as a whole—and this duo in particular—fits last year. In the final, Kumar and Ermakov took down Houston Barrick and Dominic Inglot...