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When one looks at the altered covers of Mirabella, Harper’s Bazaar and Town and Country, the construction of the cover art becomes the central focus. The clarity, color and composition of the image is what commands the onlooker’s attention, rather than the headlines emblazoned along the margins of the page. Udé has also modified the headlines of the articles contained within the magazines to evoke the main themes present within his entire body of art work. Such fictitious articles include: “A Short History of Beauty...
...that of novelist and short story writer Jennifer Egan, whose second novel, "Look at Me," will be published by Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday on September 18. Egan has a lot going for her: superagent Binky Urban, a 15-city reading tour, and confirmed coverage in Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, O, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, Talk, Paper, Vanity Fair and the NYT Book Review. The plot, according to Egan?s publisher...
...Satisfying that desire is surprisingly easy. Though creams with hydroquinone have been banned for sale without a prescription in countries such as Kenya, South Africa and Cameroon, they remain widely available. A makeshift shopping bazaar on the top floor of a guesthouse in central Nairobi, for instance, has three stands selling hundreds of tubes of creams for between $1.30 and $2.50, most of them imported from Europe. There's IKB Skin Litener Cream, which boasts that it is "extra strength" and can be found in "London, Lagos, Paris and New York." There's Princess, Kiss, Jaribu (Swahili...
...Westerners, acquiring top-quality African art and artifacts has never been easier. The largest transit point for wholesale African art in the U.S. is New York City's Chelsea Mini-Storage facility, an enormous warehouse whose ground floor resembles an African bazaar. Hundreds of traders, most from West Africa, have set up stalls, a makeshift mosque and a kitchen where women prepare traditional meals. Upstairs, Senegalese dealer Moussa Cissokho displays his wares. The presentation is modest--the figurines are still caked with soil, and the small space is crammed with crates--but the price is right. For a figure about...
KATE BETTS was relieved of her job as editor of Harper's Bazaar last week, less than two years after she was hired from Vogue. Her attempts to bring a more youthful look and feel to the once aesthetically ascetic couture bible resulted in poor newsstand sales and her departure from the building to make way for GLENDA BAILEY, editor of Marie Claire, the somewhat less refined fashion magazine that has seen rising circulation since Bailey inherited the post in 1996 from BONNIE FULLER, who two weeks ago was asked to resign as editor of Glamour, where she spiced things...