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+ (new) US Harper's Bazaar 2/2002 ** by HSB
+ (new) Flare 2/2002 **1/2 by HSB
+ Portugal Elle 2/2002 * by Zyanna
+ i-D 2/2002 *** by Cathy
+ UK Vogue 2/2002 *** by Cathy
+ UK Elle 2/2002 *** Cathy
+ UK Marie Claire 2/2002 ** w/ cover by Cathy
+ UK Arena 2/2002 **1/2 by Cathy
+ UK Glamour 2/2002 * by Cathy

(more reviews at bottom and side of this page)

Smartest observation I've heard from someone on the current middle-east/Arab inspired clothes designers have for this season. Why would any Arab woman looking for expensive looking western clothes want to buy something that looks like they can get at the local bazaar?

I still like Tom Ford's spin control, with that whole Afgan Prime Minister chic comment. I still doubt it'll sell much in the end.

correction: Saturday's update, review by Sarah Valdez of Penn's nudes is exhibition opening of his work

Now, does this mean that Niki is so naive or stupid that she could be talked into taking off her clothes and showing her scars? I mean, she's not exactly new to the business, so she really ought to know better".)
+ Celebrity Justice
Extra TV - Nikki Taylor has filed a lawsuit against British Glamour magazine, claiming a photographer "manipulated and coerced" her to reveal her physical scars during a photo shoot for the May issue.

+ Chic Happens: Fashion News and Gossip
Hintmag - January 16th
+ Gisele Warns Leo: Cheat On Me And It's Over
IMDB/WENN - Gisele Bundchen issued a warning to Leonardo DiCaprio after rekindling her romance with him - cheat on me and I'll dump you again. They split when DiCaprio, in November, went to a Lennox Lewis boxing match instead of spending the weekend with her.
+ Fetching find
Pagesix - Amanda Marcum

+ Afghan chic gets Gucci going
Thisislondon - Tom Ford says, Hamid Karzai, the new Afganistan Prime Minister, "the most chic man on the planet".
(You really have to hand it to Ford. He is so worth whatever Gucci pays him. We all saw last year how lots of fashions this year would have a "Middle east" feel to them. After September 11th, fashion houses all went into spin knowing consumers aren't going to be in the mood wearing, in the eyes of the average consumer, 'the clothing of terrorists'. So they said the same lame spin of "It's about multi-culture!", at the same time every Western nation is under pressure to tighten up immigration.

Ford sees an oppertunity and goes for it, and gets it. He associates it all with the figure head of the "Good guys". Smart guy :-) )
+ Trussardi Goes Mod
Pagesix/FWD - 60s retro look... again?
(Stuck in the counter-culture 60s? He's seem to of forgotten that any 20 year old from 1967 is now 55 years old. It's the year 2002. The question has to be asked soon: Do people really want to dress up as grandpa and grandma?)
+ Fendi: Impressive!
Pagesix/FWD - Nylon parachute pants?
+ Burberry's Got a Brand New Neck
Pagesix/FWD - The English look
+ Mini Anden: Working couple
Pagesix - Mini skips the Valentino show to work with her husband
+ Prada sales leap in US
UK Vogue - Sales of Prada and Miu Miu leapt 22%
+ Gap Separates U.S., Int. Stores
Yahoo!/AP - Gap Separates U.S., International Stores Into Separate Divisions
(Gap blaimes having to deal in both the US and foreign markets for it's troubles. So that fact that the brand name is just uncool these days has nothing to do with it?)
+ Gap to create separate U.S., overseas divisions
Yahoo!/Reuters- Ken Pilot to manage all Gap brand operations in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and Canada

+ Terry Richardson photo from Pop (scan)
SALTYT - Carmen and Griette, take "Lesbian chic" to whole new level to promote Chanel Vintage

+ Armani denounces consumerism and then sells his jeans for £100 (US$145) a pair
Daily Telegraph - The billionaire fashion designer, has condemned consumerism, saying fashion should be, "For the people, not just for those few who can afford the most expensive things".

(The obvious comment would be what Daily Telegraph quickly points out. What a hypocrite. If the guy hates consumerism so much, then why doesn't he donnate all his shares and profit he owns to the State. Or can only Armani handle being a billionaire while everyone else can't. What I call, "Vanguard of the proletariat syndrome"

I'm noticing a bigger trend here. I was ask recently my thought on some fashion book. I never read it but had a hunch what it was about. I looked up the book on Amazon and read its tagline. Same comment on fashion Armani, YSL, and many others in fashion are coming out saying.

It has to do more with politics than fashion. Fashion was (and still very much is) a place were their politics were appreciated. Might sound warm, fuzzy and nice on paper, but in real life, it doesn't work.

Fashion is more organized now. It's more mobile, able to change with the times, thanks to industry. Not thanks to the ideals of the 60s, counter culturalism, "anarchy in the UK", or today's leftist ' in the name of..' activisms, and anti-free markets attitudes.

-- here's a funny article from the National Post about a Libertarian trying to score with just this type of person.

I think we will be hearing much, much more on this topic, throughout this year.

If there's any story about fashion that needs to be talked about. It's this push to use kids in roles more suitable for adults. Lumon of Modelito sums it up with a comment she made on Jeisa: She looks beautiful, but I don´t like the fact that they´re exploiting too much of the 16 year old. All the images I see of her nowadays is showing her boobs.

Even Playboy and Hustler have the self control to wait till its models are 18.

Another thing I really can't stand and I think is ruining fashion at all levels. This patronage, especially to the degree started a few years ago. All these children of politicians, celebrities or British Bluebloods who suddenly are given a free ride. I'll use models for a quick example. Though I could quickly think of one designer too. We all know what is considered to be the typical template for a model. Yet these kids rarely fit it, ever notice that. It's safe to say it's not their genetics but is their last name which is the reason they got the job. Makes me mad since it means; someone else more who should of gotten the job - won't now. Doesn't even matter if they are qualified.)

+ GAP bonds face downgrade to junk
Pagesix - Gap's debt yields more than 10 percent while junk bonds of other retailers yield an average of 11 percent
+ Gap loses cool in sales slump
Thisislondon - On the Gap: 'It's pretty boring, always the same look over and over again.'
+ Where Gap went wrong
Thisislondon - Gap in trouble because the consumer tastes is getting more exclusive (translation: What Grandpa Simpson said).
(GAP still 1998 to GAP while it's 2002 to the rest of the world. They used Smokey Robinson for their Christmas ad champaign for crying out loud! They're STILL using the "hip looking people (to the GAP they are) who are singing or dancing" ad visuals. 14 year old girls that thought it was so cool are now 18. I've written enough comments on GAP throughout 2001. The last on December 31st.

GAP might be a well-known brand name. But is it even considered a "cool" brand name? It's like when people are talking about music and some dork no one wants to join the conversation says the ultimate dumbest band. Now that I think of it; I myself didn't like one choice of musicans they picked for their Christmas ad champaign.

If I was GAP share holder. I would be so mad at them spending goodness knows how much on using those musicians and not on their debt.)
+ Gap raises forecast, shares jump
IWON/Reuters - On January 10th Gap Inc raised its forecast for the current quarter
+ The trouble with GAP
UK Vogue - GAP could be in danger of violating its debt covenants when the fiscal year ends at the end of January, if it fails to make earnings of $1.084 billion.
+ M&S Leaves America
UK Vogue - Marks & Spencer gives up on America

+ A New Bazaar
New York Times - login req - The February issue of Bazaar is the first fully under the stewardship of Glenda Bailey
+ YSL Disgusted
UK Vogue - YSL has admitted that his decision to retire from fashion was based on his disgust with an industry ruled more by commercial gain than art.
(So using Safari jackets in women's wear is considered art?)
+ Saint Laurent takes parting shot
National Post - Grace and beauty have been banished,' retired designer says of fashion
(It's always sad seeing someone who's become obsolete in their profession not cope with the change. To quote Grandpa Simpson again:

“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.”

Yves was "it". Now he's not. What is "it", appears alien and scary to him. He can't relate to it. Fashion and the way fashion works has changed. Just like it changed when he was the fresh face. He didn't have any complaints back then.)

+ The end of a line
National Post - At 65, Yves Saint Laurent has announced he will shut his fashion house and retire. The move closes a career full of daring and prophecy
+ Ford Saddened by Saint Laurent’s Departure
Pagesix/FWD - Gucci Group Creative Director Tom Ford reacts
to the news that Yves Saint Laurent has retire
+ Yves Saint Laurent's Poetic Farewell
Pagesix - "I have today decided to bid farewell to the world of fashion I have so loved".
(Yves Saint Laurent was said to be the designer that bridge the radical movements of the 60s into high fashion. Fashion, the business fashion operates with and the world itself has changed radically since then. He realized he was irrelavent and yesterday's man and did the only honorable thing a person can do, take a bow and exit stage left.)
+ Model defection
Pagesix - Erin O'Connor jumps from Ford to Elite
+ 7th on Sixth tents go out of fashion
NY Post - Designers are not at all happy with the plans for Fashion Week
+ McQueen grows up
UK Vogue - McQueen gives up drinking and drugs
( No booze, no drugs, hanging out with a Tory . Only thing left for him to do now is find himself a nice girl and get married)
+ Police say killer targeted Truro fashion writer
Boston Herald - Investigators believe that the writer was stabbed to death in her home and may have been targeted by the killer

+ Chic Happens: Fashion News and Gossip
Hintmag - January 9th, advice to Miuccia Prada, Jean Paul Gaultier a socialist (which explains why he's such a lousy designer), James King joining Revlon

+ Sad story
Pagesix - Karen Mulder is finally talking
+ The List: FWD Picks What's In and What's Out for 2002
Pagesix/FWD - FWD's choice for 2001 In/Out list
+ Blackwell Names Anne Robinson Fashion's 'Weakest Link'
Yahoo!/Reuters - Mr. Blackwel' Worst Dressed Woman

+ Spring 2002 Trends
Modelito - Trends from a Brazilian's point of view

+ Lana Ivanioukhina Cosmo 08/01 (scans)
Modz - bleuFunk scans
+ Jeisa Chiminazzo Jalouse 09/01 (scans)
Modz - bleuFunk scans
+ Malgosia Bela Dutch 28 (scans)
Modz - CanSen scans