With Medicaid and education consuming much of states' budgets, and tax hikes out of fashion, legislators haven't had much money for new programs but want to do something.

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Someone asked what I would do when they went out of fashion, my answer is I didn't choose a faddy design.

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"Han Feng has a kind of all-around success in design that others don't, and that makes her one of the most influential people out there, " says friend and fashion icon Yue-Sai Kan of Shanghai.

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Banning out-of-school assignments would put France on the cutting edge of pedagogical fashion, though it wouldn't be entirely unprecedented.

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Plus, there are enough great designers out there that she doesn't need to pander to anyone, she said in a phone interview before the start of Fashion Week.

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An appellate court didn't think so, and in July it threw out the award, ruling that the spread was a protected combination of fashion photography, humor and editorial comment.

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