"Rising like a phoenix, she is a modern myth, the queen of the desert, a true adventurer, exploring and enticing." The first line of the program notes of Diane von Furstenberg's Spring 2010 collection, Oasis, describes the woman who will inhabit these clothes. The collection debuted yesterday afternoon in the...

A quarter century ago, Bob Geldof's Band Aid Campaign raised an estimated $242 million to fight famine in Ethiopia. In the elapsed 25 years, Ethiopia's population has doubled, the world's climate has become increasingly unstable, the Ethiopian government has successfully avoided the repetition of famine, and Bob Geldof has successfully...