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Rachel Sussman's Favorite Tools For Photographing The World's Oldest Living Things

Rachel Sussman lives in the past. The Brooklyn, New York-based photographer has spent the past six years chronicling the world's oldest living organisms, from 3,000-year-old lichen in Greenland that grows 1 centimeter every 100 years to 100,000-year-old sea grass in the Spanish Balearic Islands to 500,000-year-old bacteria she snapped under a microscope in a lab in Copenhagen.READ»

Karl Lagerfeld Becomes Fashion's Sarah Palin With Climate-Skeptic Runway Show

Chanel's legendary designer flips the bird to climate science, with a 240-ton "iceberg" created for his latest ready-to-wear collection.READ»

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Tanking Economy Shutters Chanel's Artsy Pavilion

Even tony brands like Chanel are trying to cut corners in this merciless economy, which means indulgences like the traveling art pavilion face the budget ax.READ»

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Is the Times Travel Section Tone Deaf?

The "Travel Winter 2008" issue of the New York Times Style Magazine features imagery of our rapidly melting polar caps. The photospread of the grand scenery is juxtaposed with luxury items such as $6845 black and white pelt of a mammal formerly known as endangered or a $3195 Chanel bag.READ»

Art + Sex + Zaha Hadid + Brandbuilding = Chanel

Fueled by a fortune built on a handbag, a glossy white art-filled spaceship has touched down in Central Park. It’s designed by Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize winning Iraqi architect and underwritten by Chanel, making for a kind of architecture-meets-fashion-meets-art-meets-brand promotion fantas-magoria.READ»