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...priced at $60, double the cost of most powder compacts, the limited-edition piece is already a best seller. Curiously, there is no evidence that Chanel ever actually visited China or even Asia. "I expect the closest she got was something like Venice," says Valerie Steele, director of the museum at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. One can only speculate what impact a proper Asian sojourn would have had on a designer whose love of Chinese style permeates her label's products to this...
...going to sell the steak of the science, it must rely on the sizzle of the pictures. "I would compare it to the people who painted the Rocky Mountain West in the 19th century," says Roger Launius, chief of the space-history division at the National Air and Space Museum. "They came back and presented the pictures to people, and everybody got excited about the prospect of going there...
Consider the example of Mimi Donaldson, 57, a Los Angeles motivational speaker and author. Donaldson regards herself as something of an aficionado of museums--having been to 50 of them around the world. But when, on a recent business trip, she toured Washington's International Spy Museum, she found the experience unlike any she had ever had. The five-year-old facility is the only one in the world dedicated entirely to espionage and features artifacts, interactive displays, films, video and historic photos. Exhibits show how to create and hide coded messages, tell the story of celebrity spies such...
...spies in New York City to a latter-day camera so tiny that it is concealed in a button. "I grew up in the cold war, where we sat under our desks in school during drills and hoped that we wouldn't be bombed," Donaldson says. "The Spy Museum brought that time in my life back to me in full, living color...
Thursday, Nov. 3—Saturday, Nov. 5. The Colored Museum. George C. Wolfe’s innovative and dramatic satire about the black experience in America comes to the Harvard stage. Agassiz Theatre. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...