Striking: Since September 11, they have enjoyed a presence on all channels: the Talibans.

Since September 11, they have enjoyed a presence on all channels: the Talibans. It's no surprise that the business world also wants to profit from their fame. The Filippa K fashion label shows what a well-washed and neatly dressed Taliban could look like if he dressed in a Western style. It goes without saying that only male models are copied for this look, especially since there are no women in Afghanistan. Visible ones, at any rate, do not. Their job is to produce lots of little Talibans and to remain masked in the background. Although trend guru Matthias Horx is convinced that in the future the family will be in again, women will hardly be willing to cover their faces with fabric - even if it is tailored by Armani. Chandra Kurt
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The last dining car
From Mike Müller
There are still reliable transport companies in the country. The SBB, for example. The validity of train tickets is clearly defined, there is no Sunday rule, but there are smoking compartments, and the tables in the dining car are much larger than in the air. Anyway, the airline uniforms always remind me a bit of James Bond movies, I prefer the splatter movies that the youngsters in the second-class smokers tell each other late at night. But my favorite part is the dining car, especially the last one. There's an exciting smorgasbord of overtired vacation homecomers (the over-excited mood they were in on the six o'clock train on the way there has finally faded), theater and concertgoers, stressed-out overstayers, and a few journalists comparing tomorrow's newspapers and getting heartily excited or terribly upset.
The huge importance of a national transport company is completely clear to me as far as the last dining car is concerned. Nowhere else are first and second class more mixed, alcohol flows in reasonable quantities, local salsiz soothes the stomachs of dinner forgetters, and
The politics are conducted as if one had just come from a heated community meeting. The microcosm is also trend-setting in terms of economics: the car is pulled by a state-owned locomotive, the drinks are served privately. The conductor and waiter greet each other with a jovial "Sali," and the former sometimes gets a free coffee - the grassroots set the example. And both have international experience, as the top business associations have always demanded: one is from the Baden train station, the other from the Belgrade sausage stand. This creates a feeling of home that I've never experienced in an airport lounge, washed down with a warm Feldschlösschen.
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Mike Müller is a performer.
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