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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bicycles not rationed," an ad for the bicycleexchange read. "Plenty on hand. pre-war parts andaccessories. "Douglas Shoes did not producefootwear for soldires, but at the bottom of theirads placed the line "Invest in victory-buy bonds...
...curiosity piqued, Hiestand responded to the ad by phone, and two weeks later visited Coleman California...
Hiestand's and Coleman's eight year friendship began under unique circumstances with a magazine ad. Their friendship has been growing ever since...
There has always been an intimacy between powerful editors and their favorite powerful designers: legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland with Hubert de Givenchy and Halston, the quid with the quo. But the magazine recession of the early 1990s, which intensified the scramble for ad pages everywhere, made the cozy relationships even cozier. During that period, design companies amassed even more advertising clout. The economic pressure has eased lately-for instance, ad pages through May are up 16% for Elle and 9% for Glamour over last year. Still, the compromises remain...
...addition, subtle new forms of influence peddling have become standard operating procedure. A magazine art director owns a design agency on the side and helps create ad campaigns for his magazine's advertisers. Some fashion editors quietly moonlight as free-lance stylists for the designers whose shows they are meant to be covering as journalists, earning up to $3,000 for a day's work. What lands in Vogue or Harper's Bazaar or Elle or any of the half a dozen key magazines, may be the finest clothing, the hippest new bag or belt or jacket; it may also...