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...most sought-after models of the 1970s and '80s, Iman challenged the notions of beauty in the pages of fashion magazines. The Somalian native, now 48, has done the same in the world of cosmetics. When she stepped off the runway for good in 1989 Iman realized that other women of color were having the same problems with makeup that she had confronted before photo shoots. "As a model, I had to play chemist and mix and match foundations to find a skin tone suitable for me," she says...
...more accessible, multicultural and youthful face on Estee Lauder--from the freshly scrubbed Murphy in a sea of green pillows to a lipstick campaign featuring a rotating series of three ads, with Murphy sporting red lips, Kebede burgundy lips and Hurley pink lips. "In the '80s that scientific craze was going on, and all key cosmetics brands went to being more technology driven. The '50s, '60s and '70s were much more 'lifestyle,'" says Lauder. "We've gone back to our heritage." --By Kate Novack
...Bosch is not an international celebrity like Karl (Lagerfeld) or Miuccia (Prada). When Van den Bosch started at the company, H&M was mostly buying up collections offered by Southeast Asian agents and putting them together in the store like pieces of a mismatched puzzle. In the late '80s, Van den Bosch began building a design team, and today it has access to the latest in computerized design software and color-matching programs, tools available only to billion-dollar international companies...
...remember being told that by my record company. At the time, in the '80s, because my presentation was kind of ambiguous sexually, there was quite a resistance to it. To me now, it looks so innocent...
...HarperCollins; 315 pages) takes its cues from Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: it celebrates the folksy wisdom of an older generation of men. The Girl Watchers Club is an informal cabal of men in their 70s and 80s who meet once a week to prowl yard sales and grouse about things "these days." These are men who grew up in the Depression and came of age on the battlefields of World War II. Their long, rich lives have taught them invaluable lessons about unfashionable things like "self-reliance...