Politics and high fashion may seem like strange bedfellows, but New York Fashion Week bears striking similarities to the political melee of this year's US presidential election
By Michael Quintanilla
Politics and high fashion may seem like strange bedfellows, but New York Fashion Week's occurrence during this election year points up some important similarities.

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Westminster Kennel Club dog show and New York fashion week have a lot in common: both stir up questions about aesthetics and take place in a circus-like setting
By Guy Trebay
Now that Uno, the 38cm beagle, has captured the crown, becoming the first of his breed to win best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, and now that more than 2,600 other canine competitors have been leashed and crated and hauled home to familiar kennels and sofas, it seems fitting to consider an overlooked aspect of this crowd-pleasing sport: the strange collision of fashion and dog shows.

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Whether choosing film roles or designing fashion, Chloe Sevigny has always followed her own quirky sense of style. But now she's ready for the big time
By Ryan Gilbey
It's a savagely cold December afternoon in Manhattan, and the wind could freeze the tears in your eyes. I'm with the actor Chloe Sevigny, driving at a crawl to a photo shoot where she will model outfits from her first clothing line, which she has designed for downtown boutique Opening Ceremony. The line is a charmingly sincere ragbag of patterns and influences, inspired by the "clothes collages" Sevigny would throw together as a bored adolescent in the commuter suburb of Darien, Connecticut. Nothing ever happened in Darien. Sevigny has claimed she would yell every night at her parents, "I can't believe you're bringing me up here! You guys are, like, evil!" Entire afternoons were whiled away watching her older brother, Paul, and his pals skateboarding in the backyard. Mostly, she sewed. "I had nothing better to do, so I made my own clothes."

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A POINT-AND-SHOOT CAMERA WRAPPED IN A SUIT OF ARMOR

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Witnessing at least one aspect of Cuba will, in theory, now be a bit easier for Americans: The exhibition Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today is being held across the border in Canada
By David D'arcy
I mages of boats and the horizon are a relative constant in Cuban art. For Cubans they're often an expression of longing for life beyond a geographically and politically enclosed space.

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Israel's national museum and France are accepting claims by members of the public for the works on show if they can prove any of the paintings belonged to their family
AP, JERUSALEM
Israel's national museum opened two new exhibits on Monday of paintings with a tragic history: They were stolen from the museums and salons of Europe by the Nazis during World War II and never reclaimed by their rightful owners, many of whom perished in the war.

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