Champion of Beauty in an Era of Raw Industrial Sprawl
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The strengths and weaknesses of English tastemaker William Morris are plainly set out in the Yale Center's show of his textiles, fabric, wallpaper and tapestry.
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An industrial park offering cheap labor, handy transport links and next door to major Asian markets should be a powerful lure for manufacturers looking for a competitive edge.
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By KRISTEN DAVENPORT, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS
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Alicia Drake looks at the fashion tribe watching its own reflection in the mirror in her book ÂThe Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent and Glorious Excess in 1970Âs Paris.Â
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The dateline fools you as much as the event may fool you. These are the suburbs of Detroit, where the grit turns into greenery, where the big shots who manage the car factories
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Still saddled with city's reputation of its gritty industrial past, civic leaders boast of changes.
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Nanotechnology is reshaping the world of textiles.
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By Teddy Ng  Hong Kong entrepreneurs who own factories in the Pearl River Delta Region are grappling with a new challenge: Care about pollution or perish.
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The makeup of the front rows seems to be changing with the seasons, with a turnover so fast as to suggest that modern It Girls are suddenly as replaceable as factory parts.
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There is still a way to take beauty onboard without risking arrest or confiscation.
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The world of fashion is one of professional transgression. The industry's lifeblood is shock and outrage; it survives, in its highest form, by virtue of almost hysterical exhibitionism.
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Britain&#39;s former industrial cities in the north of England have been transformed in recent years, with posh boutiques, trendy eateries and upmarket flats replacing grit, grime, sweat and toil.
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A commercial photographer and train buffâs works seem at once folksy and uncanny, with phallic monsters of industrial dynamism racing through benign, Norman Rockwell-esque visions of semirural America.
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The pretty young women battling to become Miss America may have college degrees, artistic talent, and high-minded ideals -- but they're also showing more skin than ever before.
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It's green, and from a factory. Watch it develop.
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With agriculture running like a scalded bovine, DuPont offers a couple of lush opportunities.
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The city became for her a social topography and a deep vein to be mined, both a real place and a symbolic landscape.