With the aim of selling Banana Republic quality for Gap prices, Japan's Uniqlo is taking big risks in the US market
By Eric Wilson and Michael Barbaro
Fast fashion may be moving too fast for customers to keep up.

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By Jules Quartly
Women never doubted it and even manly men wear the color. So, the big question for most fashion hounds is: What kind of pink should be worn now winter has arrived?

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Drawing on advertising, pornography, and the media, Jeff Koons' art is about aspects of entertainment. His latest work is an assault on the shiny, happy surface of contemporary culture
By Gordon Burn
"So much of the world is advertising, and because of that, individuals feel that they have to present themselves as a package." It is one of the most-quoted things Jeff Koons has said.

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By Bradley Winterton
This month sees the Taiwan release of four items new to DVD from Well Go USA. They're a mixed bag, but with much of interest. Most of all, two of the opera productions show with great clarity how classic works can be successfully modernized, and how they can't. First, however, 18th-century London's biggest theatrical hit.

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