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...Kevyn Aucoin has never wielded an implement more menacing than a wand of mascara, yet this past summer, the fashion world's pre-eminent makeup artist found himself dueling with some well-armed opponents. In his monthly column for the beauty magazine Allure, in which he typically dispenses a mixture of grooming tips and inspirational aphorisms, Aucoin took a swipe at the National Rifle Association: "Everyone knows me and sports are like the N.R.A. and intelligence--it's an oxymoron (and boy, are they morons)." The resulting volume of mail suggests there are a lot of people who subscribe...
...industry in which Vogue editor Anna Wintour's decision to wear fur in defiance of animal-rights protesters constitutes a courageous political act, Aucoin's recent assertion that he would never ply his brushes on the face of a right-wing Republican because it would be like "a Jew doing makeup for Eva Braun" marks him as something of an anomaly. Over the past decade, he has worked on more magazine covers than anyone else in his field. On Oscar night, his ministrations are coveted by Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman. Yet he has proved himself as likely to make...
...Aucoin's iconoclasm has long met with resistance, and his encounter with the N.R.A. is not the first time his life has been threatened. This week he will receive the key to his hometown of Lafayette, La., but growing up there in the 1970s--openly gay, conspicuously tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.) and unapologetically nonconformist--he was "the No. 1 pariah at school," recalls Aucoin, now 38. "Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker." He dropped out of school at 15, he says, when two classmates tried...
Rewind to then Senator Bob Packwood's 1992 re-election race against Representative Les AuCoin in Oregon. One Packwood ad featured a Jeopardy-style game show with questions about AuCoin's bounced checks and other allegations. Similar? Actually, identical...
...collegiality of the Nieman experience is something I am looking forward to," Aucoin said. "The opportunity to talk to other journalists from around the world and to explore new horizons gives one different takes on the world and a deeper understanding...