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Paris designers pull out the stops

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PARIS (AP) -- Paris designers sought a balance between showmanship and substance in their ready-to-wear displays on Saturday, as the fashion industry seeks new revenue sources to make up for the millions in Wall Street bonuses that have gone up in smoke....  comments (0)  | report problem



Let’s Play Buzzword: Defining Phrases Used in Skin Care Advertising

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We asked four women having their hair done last Friday at the Patrick Melville Salon in Manhattan for their definitions of phrases used in recent face-cream advertising.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Fashion Review: A Goodbye Kiss for Paris

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One of the strangest Paris seasons has ended, made confusing by deepening economic worries and bouts of real creativity.   comments (0)  | report problem


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It's an Ugly Business When Fashion and Reality TV Converge

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PARIS As designers have been sending their spring 2009 collections down the runways here, sometimes it has been hard to know whether one was watching a global industry engaged in its most urgently creative sales endeavors or if one was in the midst of a...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Fashion designers shiver as economic crisis hits

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In the cutthroat world of fashion, a designer can quickly lose rising star status - a fact that Alessandra Facchinetti knows only too well.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Designers play it safe as economy sours

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Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, capping a season which saw designers play it safe to coax customers into stores despite the global financial crisis.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Fashion Diary: As Lovable as a Daffy Aunt

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Why should fashion have to make sense when politicians don't?   comments (0)  | report problem


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Paris Chic in Retreat

a shared story    4 days 11 hours 39 minutes ago
PARIS, Oct. 2 Comme des Garons designer Rei Kawakubo sent a model down her runway dressed in a garment that looked as though it had been pieced together from deflated black soccer balls. The model's hair was hidden under a gray cotton-candy-like wig that rose...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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First Look Video: Yves Saint Laurent

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Exclusive video: The finale of the YSL spring 2009 collection from Paris.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Fashion Review: Recharging the City of Light

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Sonia Rykiel celebrated her 40th anniversary , and she celebrated with a collection that snapped the life back into a Paris Fashion Week that had felt drained by the dismal economic outlook.   comments (0)  | report problem



An Architect For the Books

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The D.C. Public Libraries have hired one of London's busiest and most prominent young architects to design replacement buildings for two of the most distressed branches of its system. David Adjaye, 42, a Tanzanian-born designer who has created homes for such celebrities as Ewan McGregor,...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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The Bottom Line Calls for Magic

a shared story    6 days 11 hours 38 minutes ago
PARIS, Sept. 30 The fashion industry, not to be confused with the garment trade, is in the unfortunate position of manufacturing merchandise that many would argue is wholly unnecessary and, when a $10,000 blazer is strutted down a runway by a teenager, is morally offensive....(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
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