ZAP! POW! KA-BLAMMO!!! Something very strange is happening on Planet Fashion comic-book style has made the leap from the printed page to the runway. Not quite in a single bound there was that all-important pitstop on the big screen. Hollyw…

Alexander von Humboldt, German scientist and explorer, travelled the new world at the turn of the 19th century and wrote his reports in quasi-Romantic prose. His Personal Narrative of a Journey is an odd mix of scientific fact, glum nostal…