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John Galliano, 36, a cheeky Spaniard brought up in London, was the toast of the SoHo fashion scene but unknown on the Avenue Montaigne when he took over Givenchy two years ago. A year later, Arnault moved him to Dior and plucked Alexander McQueen--even cheekier and younger, at 27--to guide the fortunes of Givenchy. At Louis Vuitton, a maker of fancy luggage and handbags that dates to 1854, he has hired an American, the young sportswear designer Marc Jacobs, to create a line of bags and sportswear to take on the chic of Gucci and Prada. Jacobs should...
Exactly so. The grubby classrooms and studios have a palpable esprit. The school sits in Soho, a hard-eating, hard-drinking area with plenty of counterculture and a large, artsy homosexual population. The place bubbles with creative activity--and has for decades. The singer Sade was a student in the '70s, and the first Sex Pistols concert was held there. Louise Wilson, head of the graduate program, says, "Lots of French designers come from good backgrounds, but here the likelihood is that kids are punk, with an emphasis on the street...
...innocent aura coexists, in person, with a more knowing and world-weary affect (after all, she was raised by artist parents in a loft in Manhattan's SoHo district and has been acting professionally since age 6). In one breath she confidently states a sophisticated opinion of Juliet ("more one-dimensional than people might expect") and in the next worries about how her looks are discussed in the press...
Already one of these new satellites, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has taken movies of hot gas streaming into space from a magnetic belt girdling the sun. And the Polar Satellite, so-called because it passes over the North Pole, recently snapped the clearest pictures ever seen of the aurora borealis, the shimmering curtains of light that are the visible fallout from space storms...
...satellites may help, but unfortunately SOHO and the Polar are research satellites, meaning that they do not transmit data continuously. But next year NASA will launch the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite, and place it in permanent orbit between the earth and the sun. Moment by moment, ACE will sample the solar wind and, almost as quickly, relay its findings back. If a blob of plasma heads this way, then ACE will see it--and alert forecasters like Hildner that a big one is about...