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...fashion, Kors has the perfect personality for mainstream retail. He is a former child actor who was nicknamed Chuckles for his sense of humor. He started in the business designing clothes and windows for a small shop in New York City. Before long he was selling his line to Bergdorf Goodman. Not your typical fashion prince, Kors calls himself a T-shirt-and-jeans kind of guy--a bit, you might even say, like Ralph and Calvin--and is more gossipy gadabout than aloof designer. He is known for leading his ladies-who-lunch customers into the fitting room...
...comically ditzy pondering of writing’s applicability to the Bergdorf world continues for a couple of paragraphs. Sykes even set up their conversation to include some Harvard name-dropping with an allusion to Zadie Smith: “Do you think you can lose weight by writing? Because it’s like all those girl writers like Joan Didion and Zadie Smith and Donna Tartt are, like, skinnier than cigarettes...
Amazingly, I did actually learn some things from the Bergdorf blondes. Honey-colored alligator stilettos, for example, “disappear to the naked eye and elongate legs.” And seaweed is the new color for toenails...
Despite some insightful musings and witty descriptions of the Bergdorf social world, however, I was generally disappointed by Sykes’ liberal use of formulaic chick lit philosophies in an attempt to bring together life, love and fashion...
...section, mainly because I couldn’t help but picture Carrie Bradshaw sitting pensively in boy shorts and camisole, face illuminated by the dim light of her iMac as she bit her lip and typed the very same phrase. I’d choose Carrie over a Bergdorf blonde...