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...letter, one of many obtained by the historian Douglas Brinkley for Talk Magazine, also shows a hint of youthful exuberance...
...guests and other glitterati who have bought shahtooshes have endured far more than a few pints of fake blood: Christie Brinkley, Blaine Trump and a host of other customers were reportedly summoned before a federal grand jury this summer to hear the bad news that the scarves--which can fetch up to $15,000--are not just wretchedly expensive; they're also illegal. "I was told that the hair came from the chin of the ibex goat," says Kempner. "That [the goats] rubbed it into the rocks and villagers picked it up and wove it into shawls." That...
...West didn't fully embrace shahtooshes until the 1980s, when fur went out and designers began dying the shawls in appealing colors. Before long, Park Avenue hostesses were selling them and Donna Karan was confiding to British Vogue that a shahtoosh was her security blanket. (Both she and Brinkley have since renounced shahtooshes...
...Brinkley said he is more optimistic about the purpose of publishing the letters...
...really do see in a clear, candid, moving fashion how deeply the war affected him," Brinkley said...