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Fashist! is 5 years old. It was December 1996 when I first put a website online.
It wasn't Fashist! at first, but eventually it was (Aug 99').

+ (new) US Allure 1/2002 *** by MirBoris
+ (new) Brazil Vogue 12/2001 *** by Lumon
+ Trace 33 **1/2 by Heather
+ (new) British Elle 1/2002 **1/2 by Cathy
+ (new) British Vogue 1/2002 *** by Cathy
+ UK Glamour 1/2002 ** by Cathy
+ US Elle 1/2002 *** by Mary
+ Nylon 12/2001-1/2002 ***1/2 by Heather
+ Russian Harper's Bazaar 12/2001 NR by Olga
+ Russian Vogue 12/2001 **1/2 by Olga
+ Purple #10 -Winter 2001 NR by Alwyn
+ US Harper's Bazaar 12/2001 *** by Mary
+ US Harper's Bazaar 12/2001 **1/2 by HSB (alt. review)
+ US Elle 12/2001 *** by Lumon
+ W 12/2001 *** by MirBoris
+ Stockholm New no.11 2001 *** by hsb

(more reviews at bottom and side of this page)

+ GAP ads fall flat as sales dip 25%
Pagesix - 19th consecutive monthly loss.
(Grampa Simpson said it best: “I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.”

GAP was "it", 3 years ago when their marketing idea of hip music and teenagers worked. Those teenagers have grown 3 years and GAP is still thinking it's fresh!? The teenagers have been replace with musicans, most of whom most teens either don't know or care about. GAP's ad department has to stop making commercials they and their SoHo coffee house friends think are cool. Actually, they should just fire the lot and start again.

Being fresh, being on the cutting edge, means originality. Using the same idea is not original. Not edgy. Going back to what once worked for them only a couple years after it was done isn't new either. It's retro. And a two year retro is pretty sad! Can two years even qualify for retro? GAP needs decide which market is it after. A new market of teenagers or the old one of teens who are almost adults now, and the young adults who are finishing collage or already living in the real world. The go after that market. Teens of now want their own thing. Their old market is older and has other concerns and priorities.

GAP lost "it" and what it's trying to do is weird and scary waste of time.)
+ Lingerie: a question of branding (picts)
Lucire - The lingerie market
+ Boss Models star booker grabs gals, splits
Pagesix - George Speros has defected from Boss Models, taking with him Omahyra Mota, and Arlette Monkewitz
(Model-wise, No Big lose.. If Boss really really wants a Omahyra replacement, then just go outside and find the first Pueto Rican working on a construction site. Stick a bra on him, and viola..)
+ Only naked is better
FUK - Soviet Lomographic clothing, with pict
(It's funny. Once anything Westen, like Levi, was the cool thing for the USSR. Now in 2002, anything Soviet seems to be cool in London fashion. I don't know if it's just those who like counter-culture. In which case all this Soviet chic stuff could be nothing more than some idiot champaign socialist idea of what they want to push on other people, since freedom and free choice, certainly has never been a thing socialists, and social democratics and progessives believe in.

Levi isn't the uber cool it once was in Russia, since it's easy to come by. But these items of their USSR past are still seen as garbage, so don't be surprise to see lots of this Soviet produced junk on eBay. Russians do not mind selling this stuff to any Londoner who wants it. They just think it's funny that anyone would want it.)
+ 'I can hardly believe that was me' (with picts)
UK Telegraph - Blue-blooded model Honor Fraser is now a student in California, but she was lured out of retirement for a Scottish cause.
+ Forget the Shoes, Prada's New Store Stocks Ideas
NY Times - Despite rumoured financial troubles, Prada's new American flagship store in SoHo

+ Chic Happens: Fashion News and Gossip
Hintmag - December 12th
+ Family ties
Pagesix - Haylynn Cohen and her lucky breaks family

+ The Face January 2002 mini review
Fashist!Forum - Reviewed by Cathy
+ Bazaar January 2002 mini review
Fashist!Forum - Reviewed by Aliengamine
+ Numero December 2001 mini review
Fashist!Forum - Reviewed by Cendres

+ Discussion: Is Kate Moss replaceable?

Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld, from Russian Bazaar 12, 2002

On Stella McCartney: "It's easy to be against fur if you are daughter of rich men, but fur and everything what's connected with it- it's whole field of industry, and many people are involved in it".

On models: "They (models) look different now. They become shorter. Incredibly, but they look like ... lesbians (manly lesbians)".

+ Jeisa Chiminazzo site - Updated, Jeisa will be doing Versus ads
+ Models & Mags - Updated, Diana Gartner
+ Caroline Ribeiro Site - Updated, new URL
+ Maria Carla Boscone - Tribute site to Maria Carla Boscone
+ X-scans - Updated, Amber Valetta, Aurelie Claudel
+ Facescafe - Update, Bridget Hall, Aurelie, Gisele *
+ Fashion Cosmo - Fashion mag scan site and message boards
+ Gisele Forever - Updated, Vogue and W editorials
+ Adriana Giotta - The Official Website - Updated, new look
+ Colette Pechekhonova in The House - Updated
+ Modelle's - Updated daily, bunch of models and ads
+ Ljupka Gojic's Official Site - New URL
+ Supermodels in the House - Updated
+ blueFunk scans - Updated recently, Shalom and Aurelie *
+ My Fascination - Updated, Delfine
+ Fashionshots - Updated
+ Markeee's Josie Maran fansite - Updated
+ Supermodels.it - Updated, Karolina Kurkova, Missy Rayder, Kate Ballo, Sasha Gnotova, Valerie Sipp

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+ Madonna Inc.
National Post - Not fashion related. It's opening said something of noteworthy: After a noticeable dip following the events of Sept. 11, the worship of celebrity seems to have made a remarkable comeback as people clamour for more glamour to take their minds off the imminent destruction of civilization.

If that's the case. Then now would be the time for really glamour models to be pushed, and no more of these experiments and token social commentary models we seem to be getting slammed down our throats the past couple years. I just really hope that some of the current "top" models wouldn't be used to lead in any possible Supermodels second coming.

People will disagree with me here. Models like Angela Lindvall annd even Gisele are no Cindy Crawford or even Carla Bruni, of their equivelent days. Models like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, are certainly nothing like they were 10 years ago. Especially Kate Moss. Who's quickly becoming a walking parody of her former self. Surely there's something better than old faces and faces that didn't launch a thousand ships. To Kate Moss fans. You're a loyal bunch. But you and the fashion industry are mistaking 'Nostalgic' with 'Cutting edge'. 'Cutting edge' means "New and fresh". Nostalgic means "Old. Been there. Seen it. Done it."

+ Chic Happens: Fashion News and Gossip
Hintmag - December 5th, Benito Mussolini the counter-culture fashion icon. And Serial sampler Steven Meisel.
(I don't know what is sicker. Mussolini or Che Guevara as the counter-culture choice of a fashion icon)
+ Aurelie Claudel's Music Video
Boomis - Aurelie Claudel in a Ricky Martin video

Congratulations to the Hintmag guys for their new gig at Canada's Top newspaper, National Post. Interesting note: The creator, and former owner of the National Post, current owner of the UK Daily Telegraph, and other papers, Conrad Black. Newspapers which definetly do good fashion content. He is rumoured to be starting up a New York paper. Expect American fashion coverage to be getting better.

(unrelated to fashion but funny)
+ The Liberals and I plan Canada's future - Michael Jenkinson, Edmonton Sun

+ US Harper's Bazaar 12/2001 *** by Mary
+ US Harper's Bazaar 12/2001 **1/2 by HSB (alt. review)
+ US Elle 12/2001 *** by Lumon
+ Brazil Vogue 11/2001 **** by Lumon
+ Russian Vogue 11/2001 ** by Olga
+ W 12/2001 *** by MirBoris
+ Portugal Elle 11/2001 ** by Zyanna
+ Stockholm New no.11 2001 *** by hsb