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Elizabeth Dole gets ready for every event as if she's having tea with the Queen. At a rally in a tobacco warehouse so humid we all feel like chain smokers, Dole appears in a bubble-gum pink suit with beige pumps and stockings. If someone were to, say, spill barbecue on her, a mint green spare is hanging in her Buick sedan...
...course, Bowles could wear the pink suit and still not flank her on gender. Women greet the Harvard Law grad and former Secretary of both Labor and Transportation like a rock star. By hiding a steel magnolia under a sweet one, she puts powerful men at ease while racing past them, a trait many women could...
Lighting too has "entered a whole new dimension," says Collins. Low-voltage dimming systems now allow users to program the lights in a room to suit a given function, mood or time of day. Even floor lamps are programmable. It's environmental control in two ways: the home's infrastructure is more efficient, and the setting can be made more aesthetically pleasing...
...security guards patrolling the lobby of Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT) in Fayetteville, N.C., are the first giveaway. In place of the standard-issue dark suit and tie, they are decked out in military garb, including black caps, fatigues and combat boots, with 9mm Berettas strapped to their side. Getting past them to work is a lot like getting on a plane these days: every employee as well as every visitor has to go through a metal detector and then get searched by a guard using an electronic hand wand...
...culture, John Malkovich sure likes clothes. In fact, being John Malkovich begins with the outfit. At an audience with journalists last week in the library of Les Salons France-Ameriques, a Second Empire mansion just off the Champs Elysées, Malkovich held court in a soft four-button suit and shawl-collared sweater, both in muted shades of beige. The ensemble, accessorized by an oversized beige attaché case that looked suspiciously crocodilian, typifies the look Malkovich is aiming for in his upcoming men's clothing line, which he announced in August. But though he's happy to expound...