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Tiffany & Co. and Frank Gehry: In a collaboration of historic significance the world's preeminent jeweler and most innovative architect have created jewelry of astonishing originality and sensual beauty.
These are designs the world has never seen before. Sharp angles. Fascinating juxtapositions.
Only Tiffany could transform these remarkable ideas into jewelry. The result is astonishing.
Each of these form engages both out intellect and our deepest emotions.
Here is exquisite jewelry, years in the making, born of a revolution and steeped in a new and daring sensuality.
New materials, such as pernambuco wood, black gold and cacholong stone.
New textures, with surfaces treated to create a startling play of light.
A bold new vision of arresting shapes and forms that reflects Gehry's lifelong passion.
On a woman's skin these tactile and emotive forms are charged with kinetic rhythm and bursting with spontaneity.
Chic. Glamorous. Fashionable. Defiantly so.
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We've all done it. Whether we made the purchase or not, we've all at least thought about putting our wallets above our conscience and investing in a good, quality, knockoff.
It seems harmless, but according to the United States Customs and Border Protection, American businesses lose between $200-$250 billion a year in valid sales due to the production of counterfeited merchandise.
Though most nations protect fashion designs under property protection laws, the United States currently does not award copyrights to apparel because the bestower of patents - who clearly missed McQueen's fall 2006 giant gauze-wrapped deer antler headdress - deems clothing "useful articles," not works of art.
While logos and names can be trademarked and protected - earlier this month Seven For All Mankind was awarded $4 million in damages from a trademark-counterfei ting suit - specific designs are unprotected.
Looking to amend the status quo is Congressman Bob Goodlatte from Virginia, who has recently approached the House Committee on the Judiciary with the Design Piracy Prohibition Act.
The proposal moves to amend the Copyright Act to provide legal protection for fashion designs for a period of three years.
This anti-piracy act has support from the Council of Fashion Designers of America among other industry big shots, but some
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It is so difficult to find clothes that will stand the rigors of long-haul travel, when sartorial elegance is usually the last thing on our minds.
These days there's a whole new brand of garment specially designed to help us when we're on the road.
Whether you're on a train, a plane or even in a car, you want clothes that do the trick: wrinkle-free, stain-free, and most importantly, comfortable.
In other words, smart - yet sensible - clothing.
Thomas Pink "Traveller" shirt's design features are hidden, with secret pockets for valuables.
It's got two breast pockets, one behind the other.
The second one is made for your passport. In the cuff, there's a place for a spare credit card.
The hidden credit card is not the sort of thing you can easily get to if you want to make an impulse purchase, but if you are on the road and you need to hide something, this might be the answer.
It just all seems a little fiddly for every day use.
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At 105 years old, Western wear maker Jack Weil may be the oldest chief executive in America, but he's making new fans daily in Hollywood as well as among cowboys.
Customers such as Ronald Reagan, Clark Gable, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Meg Ryan have donned Rockmount Ranch Wear, which also was featured in the movie "Brokeback Mountain."
Weil says the reason he has outlasted his competitors is obvious.
"Because they're all in the cemetery," he deadpanned in a recent interview.
But Rockmount Ranch Wear Manufacturing Co., which he founded 60 years ago, is a style leader in his garment realm.
"Papa Jack," as he's known, was the first to use snaps rather than buttons on shirts, a revolution for the industry.
The diamond-shaped snaps and jagged "saw-toothed" pocket designs that he created are the gold standard in Western shirts even today.
"It's the longest-running shirt design in America - Western or otherwise," said Steve Weil, the third-generation Weil to work at the family business.
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An exceptional and colourful fashion collection has been created for the CHARITY TRAM and PUMA Concept Stores, as part of the joint cooperation between PUMA and United for Africa.
A customertransparent amount from each collection item will be donated to United for Africa.
The collection's unique appearance with specially developed graphics and the colours of almost all football teams are a real eye-catcher.
The PUMA / United for Africa Collection will be launched in the CHARITY TRAM in Berlin and marketed throughout the rest of the campaign with the catchy slogan "GET IT ON".
All football and limited edition fans can put together their very own outfits. T-shirts in the colours of the eight top teams are complemented by the GRAPHIC MENU - in which fans can chose from a selection of motifs of German cities and also lifestyle graphics related to football.
In addition, fans can also be creative using the original team fonts.
PUMA Concept Stores will supply special heat presses, great for fans and others who want to design their very own T-shirt styles.
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