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Piaf's life story is as familiar to the French as her catalog of hits. And like any good tale, it's often told with much poetic license. The standard version goes something like this: born on a Paris sidewalk, Piaf was raised in her grandmother's brothel in Normandy before her acrobat father took her back to her birthplace. After cabaret owner Louis Leplée discovered her singing in the street, Piaf was soon topping the bill in the city's most exalted venues and conquering America. Oh, and don't forget the miracle that cured her childhood...
...company called Fair Indigo: Style with a Conscience hopes to do for apparel workers what fair-trade coffee has done for farmers. Launched last September with a catalog (made from postconsumer recycled paper, of course) and a website, Fair Indigo is one of the first mainstream fair-trade apparel brands in the U.S., on the heels of several recent European start-ups, most notably Britain's People Tree and Gossypium...
...working as e-commerce chief, decided to leave the company and see if they could change that. "We wanted to start a smaller company that focused not only on the customer but also on the people making the products," he says. "We knew we could do the clothing, the catalog, the website, the stores. We'd done all these things. The biggest question was if we could find factories that were willing to pay their employees fairly...
...least some of Hatto's recordings were copies of other performers' work. A critic came upon the alleged fraud when he loaded a Hatto CD onto his computer and an online database automatically identified it as a set by Hungarian Laszlo Simon. An independent expert testing Hatto's catalog claims that the sound-wave patterns on at least five of her CDs are identical to earlier recordings. One online retailer has stopped selling Hatto's music, and the British Phonographic Industry has begun an investigation. If the allegations are true, says a BPI spokesman, "this would...
...mass medium," Spiegelman said, "and didn't have to seek approval form the cultural institutions that exist. As that has changed, comics have had to reinvent themselves or die." Reinvent they did, and in the process reinvented the publishing business. As artist Raymond Pettibon puts in in the exhibition catalog: "Comics, the jilted suitor of the high airs art world, come back as the savior of the book industry in the form of the graphic novel...