He barely blinked when Ms. Daibes told him that the gift was special, because it was fashioned from a 200-year-old tree "uprooted by the Israelis".
Beauty rules here, because it is fashion, after all.
Because it is Fashion Week, which is when a particular subset of the beautiful and the damned do not so much descend on New York as wiggle-wobble into and around it like very attractive gelatin steak-strips in Prada silkies and rough denim and mean jewelry.
I wear this vest because it's fashion-meets-function and I put all my stuff in there without having to carry it around," she said.
"Women are being taken in because it is the fashion, but then they are not really seen as any damn use," says Devyani Srivastava, senior programme officer on access to justice at Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative CHRII).
We wear black because it is a fashion statement; not because we are in perpetual mourning.
East London set designer Clementine Keith Roach has created a surreal interpretation of a 1970s office in Los Angeles, complete with potted palm tree, water-cooler, fan, telephone and Venetian blind – surreal because it's all been fashioned to resemble marble.
