Ralph Lauren very at home at the English manor

    NEW YORK— Ralph Lauren and refinement go together like England and tweed. They all rendezvoused on the runway Thursday at New York Fashion Week.

    "I have always loved the heritage and romance of England. My collection for fall 2012 is about a modern glamour inspired by timeless character and refined elegance of an authentic way of living," Lauren said in an email to the Associated Press.

    To the music of "Downton Abbey," a popular PBS show about a British manor in the World War I era, models began their parade in riding clothes — plaid jodhpurs, houndstooth coats, Fair Isle sweaters and button-down shirts with contrasting white club collars — and ended in slinky evening gowns with jeweled collars.Ralph Lauren long sleeved on sale.

    There was variety in the silhouettes, with trousers, for example ranging from wide-leg pleated pants to slim cuts, and there were tailored jackets long and short. One of the most striking looks was an animal-print shearling jacket. The new version of the pantsuit was a below-the-hip lean blazer with skinny pants in the same plaid pattern but different scales.Levis t shirts mens on sale.
 
    The Ralph Lauren lady — and she is very ladylike even in man-tailored styles — relaxes at home in a black velvet smoking robe with a bright-red shearling collar, but when it's time for an appointment in town she looks like a million bucks in her black cashmere jacket, sequin-front cashmere sweater and high-waist pencil skirt.  Adidas adipower howard 2 review come to have a look.

Durant’s Modest Aspiration: ‘To Just Relax and Play Ball’-2

     At 23, Durant is almost as gifted as the golden man-child, James, and almost as committed as Bryant, the N.B.A.’s Sun Tzu, with fewer hangups and no pratfalls (albeit with fewer opportunities to fall on his face).

    “I could tell you he’s the hardest-working kid we’ve ever had,” Texas Coach Rick Barnes said. “He’s also the best teammate we’ve ever had.”Of course, if Durant has yet to show unseemly flaws, people will be glad to make some up when the time comes. Nike air max 1 hypefuse mens on sale.
    James’s fall started in 2009 — in the midst of his back-to-back M.V.P. run — when he averaged 39 points in the Cavaliers’ loss in the East Conference finals and was bashed for not congratulating Orlando players. Nike kobe 7 all star is hot now.
     Durant’s learning process ramped up painfully — but with less scrutiny — in his 2009 playoff debut, a first-round loss to the Lakers. He shot 35 percent from the field while being bounced around like a pinball by the 6-foot-7, 250-pound Ron Artest (now Metta World Peace).

    “I think that was one of the best thing to happen to Kevin,” Oklahoma City Coach Scott Brooks said.

      “I don’t think he was quite ready, but he was 21 years old against a guy that’s probably 50 pounds heavier. He was getting pushed around, but it helped. He’s better at it now. He’s matured up before our eyes.”Soft-spoken, all but cloistered as a 19-year-old rookie in the franchise’s final season in Seattle, Durant now speaks his mind as one of the few NBA stars who talk before games.

    Question: “What did you learn about playoff basketball from Ron Artest?”

     Answer: “Nothing.”

    To be sure, it is a focused mind that dismisses diva concerns like endorsement dollars — “I’m a basketball player” — noting the blessings already at hand,  like his five-year, $85 million contract.

   Divas come with protective attitudes like body armor, not to mention real bodyguards.

   Bryant’s eyes shoot laser glares. James is a runaway tank.

   Durant is Bambi?

   “You don’t think I have a chip on my shoulder?” he said, although it was hard to tell if he was amused or offended.

   “You don’t think I’m angry or nothing?

   “I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve, man. I’m always angry when I’m on the floor. I’ve got a chip on my shoulder. I feel like people write me off sometimes, but I’m not the guy who’s always going to talk about it.”

 “I do have that will,” Durant added. “I always want to be one of the best players to play this game. I know it’s easier said than done.”

“It’s a long road,” he said, “but I’m looking forward to that journey.”

He is not likely to look like Bambi when his journey ends, but so far, so good.

Durant’s Modest Aspiration: ‘To Just Relax and Play Ball’-1

    On July 7, 2010, amid the rolling of drums and the heralding of trumpets as the long-awaited moment neared, ESPN announced that in a one-hour special, LeBron James would reveal his choice from among his hometown team, Cleveland, and glamour-market suitors from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.
   All but unnoticed, Kevin Durant made an announcement no one had been awaiting. Forgoing a chance to sort out his own list of glamour markets, he had agreed to a five-year extension in Oklahoma City. Durant, who is from suburban Washington, believed that Oklahoma City was just right for him — and his agent, his publicist, and even Nike, his demographics-savvy sneaker partner, never said a word to the contrary.
    Although maybe that is because Durant says he never mentioned his decision to them.
“It never came up,” Durant said recently in Los Angeles, as if it were understood that serpents did not offer apples to young stars with unlined faces and wide-eyed countenances. “I enjoy the city and the organization so much, it never came up.”Nike tiempo legend iv review come to have a look.
    “It’s different,” he said of an N.B.A. outpost that is one of the smallest markets in the league and does not come with the size and traffic and crowds that other franchises have.
   “That’s why I like it, man. It’s a perfect place to just relax and play ball and get your mind off stuff and just grow. So I’m blessed I got this opportunity to play there.”
    Durant, 23, has won three consecutive scoring titles. His Thunder earned the Western Conference’s No. 2 seed and are favored in their first-round series against the Dallas Mavericks, last season’s N.B.A. champions.
    Durant, the latest in an N.B.A. line of golden children that extends from Kobe Bryant through James, still wears a backpack, like one of today’s students.Womens Nike dunk heels high is popular now.
    When he announced his extension, the thoroughly modern Durant handled it all himself — via Twitter, with standard stylized spelling and mistakes that even young people make typing with their thumbs: “Exstension for 5 more years wit the thunder. . .God Is Great, me and my family came a long way. . .I love yall man forreal, this a blessing!”
    Bryant and James arrived in the N.B.A. intent on going everywhere Michael Jordan had — an impossible standard commercially with Jordan having rewritten all the rules.
     Bryant was hailed by fellow teenagers, who voted him into the All-Star starting lineup while he was still a Lakers reserve.
    By 23, Bryant had left Adidas, blaming it for slowing sales of his gear, and ultimately changing his uniform number from 8 to 24 when it continued its Crazy Eight line.
    By 29, Bryant was desperate to leave his moribund team, but he nonetheless limited himself to major-market contenders — of which he could find only one, Chicago, which, it turned out, didn’t have an All-Star player the Lakers were demanding in exchange.
    At 33, Bryant is now an elder statesman, with the cachet of five championship rings.
    Following along at 27, James, who listed his goal matter-of-factly at 21 as “global icon,” has now collected the ashes.
    A back-to-back most valuable player at 25, James was pulled, or dived headlong, off his pedestal in 2010 when Boston upset the Cavaliers in the second round in 2010, after which he announced he was “going to take my talents to South Beach.”
    James’s travail continues — at a high level, with him and Durant front-runners in polls of M.V.P. voters.
It is an adventure for Durant, who does not consider himself a peer. Showing how fast N.B.A. generations turn over, Durant doesn’t even think 27 is so young.
    “He is a middle-aged guy, isn’t he?” Durant said of James, smiling.“I think I’m one of the younger guys. He’s one of the guys — he’s still young but he’s old, you know what I mean?“I can’t explain it, but he’s one of the guys who’s been in this league a while and done so much. Stuff he’s doing, you only wish you could do.”

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