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...fashionable. As president of Saks in the '90s, she brought labels like Gucci, Jil Sander and Prada onto the selling floor, a move that began the store's return to the luxury league of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. As a cosmetics buyer at Macy's in the early '80s, Bravo noted the sudden proliferation of fuchsia in fashion. She called Carol Phillips, co-founder and then head of Clinique. "I said, 'This pink is wildly popular. It's everywhere in the clothing. We don't have a lipstick that color,'" Bravo recalls. Phillips called back...
This passion for the eclectic has marked the red-headed, diminutive Orlean’s career. Although she got her start profiling 80s pop sensations like Tiffany for Rolling Stone and Vogue, she eventually realized that it wasn’t for her. “I’m just not that interested in celebrities,” Orlean admits. Instead she turned to the kind of subjects that are “not at all expected”—and found her niche...
Keller is painfully aware of the influence of the media. Born in California, he began working in a Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant run by his mother, and after serving apprenticeships at top restaurants in France, arrived in New York City in the monied mid-'80s, attracting a lot of media attention when he opened his restaurant Rakel in 1986. But when the market crashed in 1987 and Rakel struggled, Keller was savaged in the press. "My credibility was low after Rakel failed. I was labeled the chef who couldn't control food or labor costs...
...Spain now permits holding terror suspects incommunicado for up to 13 days. France boasts a raft of harsh laws dating from the mid-'80s when its terrorist threat began evolving from leftist radicals toward jihadists. A suspect can be tried for "associating with wrongdoers involved in a terrorist enterprise," detained without charge for up to six days - and, once charged, jailed for three years before trial. One French case now approaching the three-year mark is that of Djamel Beghal, a veteran of al-Qaeda's Afghan camps. After being arrested in the Dubai airport, Beghal confessed...
...arguably, as important to VH1's identity as the musicians are people like comic Mo Rocca (The Daily Show). He has appeared on enough clip shows--70s, 80s and the new Best Week Ever--that one might believe VH1 has him chained in a basement studio. "I consider myself the David McCullough of '70s and '80s pop culture," says Rocca, who notes that the affection for that culture is not limited to people old enough to remember those decades. "I speak at colleges, and the kids are nuts over these series," he says. "They don't know anything about...