Paris – The final major show on the four-week and four-city fall 2011 fashion circuit was Miu Miu in Paris on Wednesday, March 9, and while it obviously referenced '40s glamour, it was the most modern collection of all in terms of silhouette and line.
Though designer Miuccia Prada is arguably better known for her innovative use of fabrics, her unerring sense of what is new and her inspired meeting of art and fashion, this was her showing off her skill at cutting and inventing new shapes.
That much was clear from the opening, which consisted of superlatively well-shaped coats and jackets, offered with large heroic shoulders, off set large buttons and micro pointy collars. Adding to the novelty were large romantic bows and twisted Obi belts, making every look classy yet audacious.
Frequently the coats were shown without any skirts, adding edge and allure. Also resplendent were the silk dresses cut at the knee, embroidered with images of daisies, daffodils or swallows, all of them somehow very French, albeit designed by a quintessentially Italian creator.
However, not every look worked. A few gathered tops in wool were rather frumpy and sometimes the cut was just too bulky. However, no Miu Miu show lacks appetizing accessories, and this was no exception. A favorite was a brass trimmed curvilinear bag made in felt - the fabric of the season for handbags - that had great class. Glitter added a faintly trashy touch but always with a certain panache, especially in curved heeled glitter high-heels, the best of them tied with wide gross grain ribbons.
"I wanted a sense of glamour, but dusted down, and with a new attitude, and more romance," explained the designer, sipping champagne on a front row bench of the emptied setting.
Rarely has the location of fashion synched so well with the collection. Prada hired a striking modernist government building near the Trocadero, one that had never been used for a runway show. Designed by the distinguished French rationalist architect Auguste Perret, its vigorous, poured concrete style, and curvy stairways and entrance were an ideal home for this important, curvilinear collection.
2011年3月31日星期四
2011年3月29日星期二
Suns-Nuggets is still marquee here
Suns-Nuggets is still marquee here
Key Nuggets subs: Al Harrington, Chris Andersen, Raymond Felton, Timofey Mozgov and JR Smith.
Key Nuggets injuries: Arron Afflao (left hamstring strain) and Danilo Gallinari (toe fracture) are listed as out for tonight's game.
Apologies for the later-than-ever version of game-day Orange Slices. As a result, they'll be snack size too for the 8:30 p.m. game.
* It is easy to focus just on the two teams immediately in front of the Suns, Memphis and New Orleans, as teams they could pass to get into the playoffs but West positions five through 11 are so tightly bunched that you can't be sure who might fall out. Let's not discount the possibility of Denver, even with its 5-2 record since trading Carmelo Anthony.
If the Suns beat Denver tonight (and they have 12 consecutive times in Phoenix), they would be within two games of the Nuggets and split the season series 2-2. The Nuggets are a team prime to be beaten on the road with an 11-20 away record after dropping a 100-94 decision Tuesday at Staples Center to the Los Angeles Clippers.
In that loss, Nene, the NBA field goal percentage leader, was great (25 points and 14 rebounds) and most of his teammates were terrible. Ty Lawson, JR Smith, Wilson Chandler, Arron Afflalo and Al Harrington made 11 of their 56 shots.
* TNT did not want this game, leaving Denver for New York just like Carmelo Anthony did. TNT is doing New York's game at Dallas but the Nuggets still have a better record than the Knicks and this game has its own intrigue besides the West's playoff race.
The last time they faced, the Suns had their rock-bottom moment of the season. They took a 32-20 lead after the first quarter and then gave up 82 points over the middle quarters to wind up getting rocked 132-98 at Pepsi Center on Jan. 11. Since that game, the Suns are 18-8.
Even though TNT dropped the game, the Suns kept the tip time at 8:30 p.m. because it had been listed as that on schedules and the game tickets. They had switched a game to an earlier time in a similar situation in the past and had several fans missing half of the game because of the time change.
* Suns coach Alvin Gentry talked up Denver from the time of the trade, saying they were capable of staying in the playoff mix because of JR Smith.
"JR Smith is such a wild card," Gentry said. "The guy is capable of averaging the same amount of points Carmelo averaged. He could get 25 points every night out."
* The Suns are 30-5 at home after the past three All-Star breaks under Gentry.
* This will be the first game Afflalo has missed this season.
* The Nuggets' 12-game losing road streak at Phoenix is their longest active road skid.
* Denver has given up at least 100 points in 21 of its past 22 road games.
* Denver leads the NBA with 107.3 points per game but has improved defensively since the trade. They allowed 105.2 points per game before the trade and 94.3 since the deal.
Key Nuggets subs: Al Harrington, Chris Andersen, Raymond Felton, Timofey Mozgov and JR Smith.
Key Nuggets injuries: Arron Afflao (left hamstring strain) and Danilo Gallinari (toe fracture) are listed as out for tonight's game.
Apologies for the later-than-ever version of game-day Orange Slices. As a result, they'll be snack size too for the 8:30 p.m. game.
* It is easy to focus just on the two teams immediately in front of the Suns, Memphis and New Orleans, as teams they could pass to get into the playoffs but West positions five through 11 are so tightly bunched that you can't be sure who might fall out. Let's not discount the possibility of Denver, even with its 5-2 record since trading Carmelo Anthony.
If the Suns beat Denver tonight (and they have 12 consecutive times in Phoenix), they would be within two games of the Nuggets and split the season series 2-2. The Nuggets are a team prime to be beaten on the road with an 11-20 away record after dropping a 100-94 decision Tuesday at Staples Center to the Los Angeles Clippers.
In that loss, Nene, the NBA field goal percentage leader, was great (25 points and 14 rebounds) and most of his teammates were terrible. Ty Lawson, JR Smith, Wilson Chandler, Arron Afflalo and Al Harrington made 11 of their 56 shots.
* TNT did not want this game, leaving Denver for New York just like Carmelo Anthony did. TNT is doing New York's game at Dallas but the Nuggets still have a better record than the Knicks and this game has its own intrigue besides the West's playoff race.
The last time they faced, the Suns had their rock-bottom moment of the season. They took a 32-20 lead after the first quarter and then gave up 82 points over the middle quarters to wind up getting rocked 132-98 at Pepsi Center on Jan. 11. Since that game, the Suns are 18-8.
Even though TNT dropped the game, the Suns kept the tip time at 8:30 p.m. because it had been listed as that on schedules and the game tickets. They had switched a game to an earlier time in a similar situation in the past and had several fans missing half of the game because of the time change.
* Suns coach Alvin Gentry talked up Denver from the time of the trade, saying they were capable of staying in the playoff mix because of JR Smith.
"JR Smith is such a wild card," Gentry said. "The guy is capable of averaging the same amount of points Carmelo averaged. He could get 25 points every night out."
* The Suns are 30-5 at home after the past three All-Star breaks under Gentry.
* This will be the first game Afflalo has missed this season.
* The Nuggets' 12-game losing road streak at Phoenix is their longest active road skid.
* Denver has given up at least 100 points in 21 of its past 22 road games.
* Denver leads the NBA with 107.3 points per game but has improved defensively since the trade. They allowed 105.2 points per game before the trade and 94.3 since the deal.
Christ Feeds food-packing events provide thousands of meals to hungry abroad
In October, an army of local volunteers waged a battle against hunger. Armed with hairnets and aprons, 1,150 gathered at Christ United Methodist Church in a gym full of tables and worked assembly-line-style, packing meals in bags to be shipped to hungry Zambians.
Working assembly-line style, volunteers packed 200,000 meals for hungry families in Zambia in October through Christ Feeds, a food- packaging ministry at Christ United Methodist Church.
Working assembly-line style, volunteers packed 200,000 meals for hungry families in Zambia in October through Christ Feeds, a food- packaging ministry at Christ United Methodist Church.
Ted Medlin
Ted Medlin
Volunteers as young as 5-year-old Nealy Sankey helped package meals during a Christ Feeds event benefiting hungry people in Zambia.
Volunteers as young as 5-year-old Nealy Sankey helped package meals during a Christ Feeds event benefiting hungry people in Zambia.
Occasionally, a cheer would erupt from a table as its big box was filled with food bags and carted away.
Working quietly among them was Ted Medlin, the Germantown farmer-lawyer whose efforts to create this and events like it led to more than 700,000 meals being shipped to malnourished families in Africa and Haiti. Now, he and others hope to spread meals throughout the city.
Medlin is a corporate lawyer who works in real estate and owns a large farming operation in the southeast Missouri Delta. He rents out his land now, but he once grew rice, cotton, soybeans and more, he said.
Medlin saw deprivation up close as a young man. Four years working in logistics with a steamship company took him to Central and South America, Asia and Liberia in West Africa. "I've observed the eyes and faces of poverty and malnutrition, so I do have a heart for it," he said. In West Africa, "I was shocked by the harsh conditions they dealt with on a daily basis, the thatch-and-mud huts, the open fires over which no food was being prepared."
In 2006, he heard a speech by renowned plant scientist Dr. Norman Borlaug at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. Borlaug, known as the father of the Green Revolution, bred high-yielding crop varieties that helped avert mass famines. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.
"His message was that food was the moral right of every person living on this Earth," said Medlin. Speaking with him later, "I felt close to him, as if I were talking to my grandfather," he said.
While in Des Moines attending a memorial event for Borlaug after his death in 2009, Medlin met Kathy and Floyd Hammer, founders of Outreach International Inc. a nonprofit food-packaging program based in Union, Iowa, that aids the hungry in Tanzania in East Africa.
In January 2010, Medlin and the couple spoke to a Sunday school class at Christ United Methodist Church and demonstrated the assembly-line packing system. A committee of around 15 or 20 from that class and others formed to show the process to other classes and to organize a Christ Feeds food-packing event. Among them were retired businessman Mike Sheahan and Marilyn Hughes. Hughes, manager of community relations for Hilton Worldwide, became Christ Feeds task force chairwoman.
The following May, a few months after the Haiti earthquake, more than 900 church members, sports teams, school and community groups gathered at the church gym and packed more than 150,000 meals for Haiti.
Working with rice, soy, dried vegetables and vitamin packets, they scooped, bagged and weighed the food and sealed it in bags. The meals, which can be cooked by boiling, are purposely bland to accommodate a variety of cultural tastes, said Hughes.
Many packers donated money to help pay for food and shipping, she said. Each bag could feed six children at about 25 cents a meal. Ten volunteers working one table for an hour could pack about 1,800 meals on average.
The Hammers supplied two 18-wheeler trucks, which brought the 50-pound bags of rice and soy, boxes and equipment to the event and hauled away the packaged food afterward.
On Oct. 2, a second Christ Feeds event packed 200,000 meals to send to a Mercy Ministries International mission it supports in Lusaka, Zambia. Among the volunteers were coach Josh Pastner and a big part of the University of Memphis Tigers men's basketball team.
The Zambian school serves children who have lost one or both parents due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Food also went to needy families and the chronically ill in the village.
"The reason most of the kids come to school is because they know they're going to get a meal," said Janet Sisco, formerly from East Memphis and an administrator at the mission who returned recently to Tennessee on furlough.
"It was awesome, such a blessing to be there and see them get the food. The kids were so joyful. They knew they were the recipients. They understand this is a gift from God."
The church also sent 800 school uniforms, 200 pairs of shoes and dental supplies.
But not content with a one-church operation, Medlin arranged a packing demonstration in St. Louis for the Plant Science Center founder, Dr. William H. Danforth, and his board, and later for center staffers.
"When you see how simple it is and how you can be part of preparing somebody's meals, it brings tremendous joy and happiness to you," said Medlin. "You are 'entering' a thatched hut in Africa in a way you could not do otherwise."
On Oct. 15 and 16, the Danforth center, a nonprofit that works to eradicate malnutrition, celebrated World Food Day with a food packing event that drew 1,900 volunteers and sent 355,000 meals to Tanzania.
In December, the center presented Medlin with a replica of the Co
Working assembly-line style, volunteers packed 200,000 meals for hungry families in Zambia in October through Christ Feeds, a food- packaging ministry at Christ United Methodist Church.
Working assembly-line style, volunteers packed 200,000 meals for hungry families in Zambia in October through Christ Feeds, a food- packaging ministry at Christ United Methodist Church.
Ted Medlin
Ted Medlin
Volunteers as young as 5-year-old Nealy Sankey helped package meals during a Christ Feeds event benefiting hungry people in Zambia.
Volunteers as young as 5-year-old Nealy Sankey helped package meals during a Christ Feeds event benefiting hungry people in Zambia.
Occasionally, a cheer would erupt from a table as its big box was filled with food bags and carted away.
Working quietly among them was Ted Medlin, the Germantown farmer-lawyer whose efforts to create this and events like it led to more than 700,000 meals being shipped to malnourished families in Africa and Haiti. Now, he and others hope to spread meals throughout the city.
Medlin is a corporate lawyer who works in real estate and owns a large farming operation in the southeast Missouri Delta. He rents out his land now, but he once grew rice, cotton, soybeans and more, he said.
Medlin saw deprivation up close as a young man. Four years working in logistics with a steamship company took him to Central and South America, Asia and Liberia in West Africa. "I've observed the eyes and faces of poverty and malnutrition, so I do have a heart for it," he said. In West Africa, "I was shocked by the harsh conditions they dealt with on a daily basis, the thatch-and-mud huts, the open fires over which no food was being prepared."
In 2006, he heard a speech by renowned plant scientist Dr. Norman Borlaug at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. Borlaug, known as the father of the Green Revolution, bred high-yielding crop varieties that helped avert mass famines. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.
"His message was that food was the moral right of every person living on this Earth," said Medlin. Speaking with him later, "I felt close to him, as if I were talking to my grandfather," he said.
While in Des Moines attending a memorial event for Borlaug after his death in 2009, Medlin met Kathy and Floyd Hammer, founders of Outreach International Inc. a nonprofit food-packaging program based in Union, Iowa, that aids the hungry in Tanzania in East Africa.
In January 2010, Medlin and the couple spoke to a Sunday school class at Christ United Methodist Church and demonstrated the assembly-line packing system. A committee of around 15 or 20 from that class and others formed to show the process to other classes and to organize a Christ Feeds food-packing event. Among them were retired businessman Mike Sheahan and Marilyn Hughes. Hughes, manager of community relations for Hilton Worldwide, became Christ Feeds task force chairwoman.
The following May, a few months after the Haiti earthquake, more than 900 church members, sports teams, school and community groups gathered at the church gym and packed more than 150,000 meals for Haiti.
Working with rice, soy, dried vegetables and vitamin packets, they scooped, bagged and weighed the food and sealed it in bags. The meals, which can be cooked by boiling, are purposely bland to accommodate a variety of cultural tastes, said Hughes.
Many packers donated money to help pay for food and shipping, she said. Each bag could feed six children at about 25 cents a meal. Ten volunteers working one table for an hour could pack about 1,800 meals on average.
The Hammers supplied two 18-wheeler trucks, which brought the 50-pound bags of rice and soy, boxes and equipment to the event and hauled away the packaged food afterward.
On Oct. 2, a second Christ Feeds event packed 200,000 meals to send to a Mercy Ministries International mission it supports in Lusaka, Zambia. Among the volunteers were coach Josh Pastner and a big part of the University of Memphis Tigers men's basketball team.
The Zambian school serves children who have lost one or both parents due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Food also went to needy families and the chronically ill in the village.
"The reason most of the kids come to school is because they know they're going to get a meal," said Janet Sisco, formerly from East Memphis and an administrator at the mission who returned recently to Tennessee on furlough.
"It was awesome, such a blessing to be there and see them get the food. The kids were so joyful. They knew they were the recipients. They understand this is a gift from God."
The church also sent 800 school uniforms, 200 pairs of shoes and dental supplies.
But not content with a one-church operation, Medlin arranged a packing demonstration in St. Louis for the Plant Science Center founder, Dr. William H. Danforth, and his board, and later for center staffers.
"When you see how simple it is and how you can be part of preparing somebody's meals, it brings tremendous joy and happiness to you," said Medlin. "You are 'entering' a thatched hut in Africa in a way you could not do otherwise."
On Oct. 15 and 16, the Danforth center, a nonprofit that works to eradicate malnutrition, celebrated World Food Day with a food packing event that drew 1,900 volunteers and sent 355,000 meals to Tanzania.
In December, the center presented Medlin with a replica of the Co
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