"We've always said that if someone is going to do 'Appalachian Spring' in black leather, it should be us, " said Ms. Eilber, referring to Graham's dramatic 1944 work of Americana set to music by Aaron Copland.
The iPad, as Steve Jobs told us from his comfy leather chair at Macworld, represents a new computing form factor that falls squarely between the laptop and the smartphone.
For the rest of us, Topshop presents a knotty dilemma: the rewards can be great (a leather biker jacket I bought seven years ago is still regularly mistaken for Balenciaga) but the sacrifices are akin to a root canal (confusing layouts, too much clothing and herds of teenagers roaming with hyena-like intensity).