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It
Caught My Eye, over the past month... - March 27, 2003
Fashion
world is changing...
The
world seems to be changing. Countries falling out of each
other's good books, like US and France. EU just won a WTO
trade fight over the US, on its tariffs on EU steel. French
fries are now "Freedom" fries, in the US (with Canadian
bacon possibly facing a name change there too).
Non-US
fashion shows this past season had a anti-American tone to
it. Will trade barriers and loud mouths in opposing countries,
like the US and France, cause a rift in fashion. Time will
show. I expect it will. A Ebay vendor locked out recently
a Canadian buyer. Stating: If you're not with us (in the war
against Iraq). Then you're against us. We don't want your
business. Ebay Canada, last week, held an online fashion auction
for the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
This
could be a real disaster for the fledgling Canadian fashion
industry. Europe seems more interested in just plucking top
Canadian talent and adding it to its own. The best market
for Canada has always been the United States. Canadian fashion
picked to not back the US' side (on Iraq). Canada fashion
will have only itself to blame to what should happen next
to it. Or maybe Canadian designers do it just for fun? If
so, then not being able to make much of a living thanks to
a possible lost in the US market, shouldn't bother them. It's
Canada after all. Lots of Industry Welfare here. Canada: Home
of designer handout plates.
Firstview
(firstview.com), an American company, has been locked out
in showing French designers. L'Espresso MODA (speciali.espressonline.it),
a similar idea site, based in Italy. Still is able to show
French designers on its site.
How
this will effect how fashion is ran and shown in countries
like France and US, in the future, remains to be seen. Will
magazine bibles, like Vogue, in both countries, America and
France, go a more patriotic root? Will Russian, German, Canadian
and French models have to forget about working in New York?
Designers too? Could German Bridget Hall fans have to go without
the American? Will US Vogue become unreadable with a non-stop
army of English Blueblood, along side Hollywood actresses?
Will models who did protests against the US and UK's position
on Iraq face during NYC fashion week get blacklisted in US
fashion? If so, then at least the continuing misidentification
of the Gucci "G" being wrongfully thought of being
Carmen Kass, will be straighten out.
I
doubt it. At least not to that extreme of a level. Not in
the US, at least. Fashion flies under the radar enough not
to get noticed. So I suspect Covergirl won't have to hunt
for new models. Unfortunately I could see more Blueblood models
in US magazines in the near future.
Model
comebacks...
Veteran
Linda Evangelista returned to the runways. She's not the only
model who seems to be trying for a comeback.
Remember
Kylie Bax?
She
used to be in important magazines women fashion magazines
like Vogue. She was in various lad mags not too too long ago.
Most notable being Sports Illustrated. She's back. Working
with the porn company Girls Gone Wild. She'll be the host
for some GGW Ibiza DVD (source: Stance magazine). She was
recently on the GGW PPV, as a judge for Miss GGW. Sadly..
I could see Kylie's road in getting her back into high fashion
working better then Linda's runway route.
Long
time Fashist! visitors will remember a story a couple years
back. A Fashist! regular visitor, who had owned the domain
name Kyliebax.com, wrote to me, telling me Kylie sent out
her lawyers to get her cyber name back. Which he did. Then
Kylie did nothing with it. The official Kylie Bax web site
project is back! It's to open on January 1st, 2003. So it's
a race between Kylie and Terry Richardson's site, in "who
will open first!?"
Michele
Hicks is inside the 4th anniversary of Nylon. Another comeback.
Who's
Carrie Tivador?
She's
a Canadian model who recently was on the cover of Quebec Elle.
She models for Maybelline and Buffalo jeans. According to
WENN.com, she's also now Nicolas Cage's new girlfriend. (Canadian
fashion magazines are starting to have some real model stars
to choose from. Tasha Tilberg, Marie-eve Nadeau, Liisa Winkler,
Yasmin Warsame, and now Carrie Tivador.)
SALTYT
(salty.com) posted a Q&A from V magazine, with Jessica
Miller
(V
asks if she 'wears a bra'?)
"none. I sometimes wish I had something to put into a
bra. Bras are so pretty".
(V
asks if she 'shave or wax'?)
"Definitely wax".
I
like Jessica Miller. She's a great addition to the world of
modeldom. Too bad for her Dutch went under. She sure poses
nude a lot. She's sure giving Karen Elson and Kate Moss a
real for their money in who can pose nude the most.
Tommy
who?...
Owner
of Nine West, Gloria Vanderbilt and Jones New York; Jones
Apparel, is in talks to buy Tommy Hilfiger.
Speaking
of strange owners in fashion....
And
I quote from a past Studio Briefing (studiobrf.newshare.com):
Saddam
Hussein owns a $90-million stake in Lagardere SCA, the
French parent company of Hachette Filipacchi, the publisher
of numerous U.S. magazines, including Premiere (And,
Elle! Elle Girl, and American Photo), and the
backer of several French and Hollywood motion pictures, the
New York Post observed. The newspaper said that although word
of Saddam's holdings in Lagardere first came to light during
the Gulf War in 1990 and although Hachette execs announced
at the time that they planned to buy out his holdings, Saddam
continues to hold his stake in the company. The Post said
that Hachette has been conducting tests to determine whether
it could be harmed by "guilt by association" because
of the Saddam connection.
(Come
to think of it... I don't ever recall seeing Lauren Bush in
Elle? You don't think??? :-p)
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