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Like the brands they celebrate, fashion parties cling to predictable formulas: a big-name DJ, a handful of A-list celebrities and the requisite industry insiders. But when the Italian leather-goods house Bottega Veneta held a dinner in Paris at the chic Relais Plaza restaurant in March, the mood was intentionally low-key and intimate...
...center table, surrounded by furniture dealers and a smattering of old friends, sat Tomas Maier, 49, the German-born creative director of Bottega Veneta and the designer largely responsible for ushering in a profitable countertrend of subtlety and refinement to the overblown, logo-besotted luxury market. The mood he had created for the dinner jibed seamlessly with the mood he has established at the brand: understated...
...making changes to the constitution to prevent him seizing power again, or of surrendering command of the powerful army-demands that his political opponents had been making for months. The response of the parties was to reject the King's offer and to call for more peaceful protests. The mood on the street was just as unbending. To many Nepalese, the King appeared arrogant and cold-hearted-he said nothing about protesters who had died, and even praised the security forces for dealing effectively with demonstrators. "We are unhappy with the King's statement," said 27-year-old university student...
...Mood to Fight "Combat Fatigue" [april 3] discussed the impatience that many Taiwanese voters have with President Chen Shui-bian's deliberately provocative stance toward China. I strongly feel that the future of Taiwan depends on economic development. I can support only political leaders who can improve Taiwan's economy and give me a better standard of living. That's what I will be thinking about as we approach the next presidential election in 2008. Song Xiaowen Pingzhen City, Taiwan...
...protestors were in a more confrontational mood today. So were the authorities. Nepali police reacted brutally to such demonstrations, firing tear gas and rubber bullets in many places. While the numbers of casualties are hard to know at this stage, it is clear that many were wounded. Cell phones were jammed throughout the city to cut off communications. A long spell of rain in the afternoon helped the authorities by stopping the protests for a while, although large plumes of smoke continued to curl up into the Kathmandu skyline as protestors kept their fires burning. Then the rain ended...