Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAND IT TO CALVIN KLEIN: HE REALLY knows how to milk an advertising campaign, even a doomed one. First you push the envelope until it splits open by putting pubescent models in lurid poses, then plaster them on billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood...
...trip as Cher tries to arrange a match between Tai and high school-stud Elton; attempts to catch the attention of a Jason Priestly look-alike, Christian, by sending herself flowers and candy; has several brushes with death during her driving test; and--horror of horrors--ruins a few Calvin Klein originals...
Bragg is positioned to someday assume such a role on the larger stage of local or national politics. He has powerful mentors, including the Rev. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of Harlem's influential Abyssinian Baptist Church...
Some of the newer business arrangements are especially troubling. At Harper's Bazaar, creative director Fabien Baron is also the owner of Baron & Baron, a design agency whose clients include Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss. Though his role at Bazaar is an influential one, Baron is technically a freelancer. This allows him to take on outside work, and his well-known arrangement raises few eyebrows. "I have no problem with this," says his boss, Tilberis. "Why is it a problem? Fabien Baron has nothing to do with placing ads or choosing the clothes that go in the magazine...
...Conda Nast, only contributors may accept outside assignments. Andra Leon Talley, who was creative director at Vogue, did styling for Versace and John Galliano. He says he was never paid for this work. Brana Wolf, a contributor at Vogue, has worked for Calvin Klein. Though she is not on staff, she exerts an influence: her name appeared on at least one major fashion story in 11 of the past 12 issues. At Harper's Bazaar, fashion director Tonne Goodman, who has worked for Calvin Klein, still does occasional styling for her old boss...