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...male model half his age. His studio is in a 16th-century palazzo in downtown Milan. Despite the surroundings, he prides himself on "de-dramatizing" the female image. Armani maintains that "young women want to dress in a classic way, elegantly, but not a la Dior or Chanel in the '40s. Women today move differently. Today's body should not be confined by clothes that are too structured." Associates note that Armani collaborates closely with several women designers in his studio and understands their need for practical daytime wear. "I feel the real world to conquer...
Porter's "Let's Do It", however, does work as well as it did in concert, probably because the song lives (and dies) by its inventive lyrics, e.g. "Catherine Deneuve with her Chanel does it and the fragrance really lingers/Colonel Sanders with his chicken does it, and then, he licks his fingers." Musically, both the live and to a lesser extent, the studio versions of the songs suffer from fairly primitive mixings, and the sound is frequently muddy. The Kroks draw inspiration, not to mention an occasional arrangement, from Manhattan Transfer, but can't match the polish or studio values...
Since her death in 1971 , six attempts to make a film about Coco Chanel, the fabled French couturière, have come unraveled. For the seventh, Producer Larry Spangler "looked at every conceivable actress," he says. "But the minute I met Marie-France Pisier, I knew I had met Coco. She is tough, charming, aggressive, ambitious, revolutionary, bright." Especially bright. Pisier has a master's degree from the Paris Law School and virtually a Ph.D. in Chanelology. Says the actress, who starred in Cousin Cousine (1975) and The Other Side of Midnight (1977): "I have read every possible book...
...Casablancas stable. The most telling deserter from Wilhelmina was Patti Hansen, who disports her form in Calvin Klein jeans and has just finished acting in Peter Bogdanovich's film They All Laughed. In all, some 20 Ford stars-led by sultry, pouty Janice Dickinson and Christie Brinkley, the Chanel No. 19 girl-and a dozen young "boppers" from other agencies also joined John. (Brinkley ended up back with Ford last month.) Considering that an agency makes commissions of 10% to 20% on a star model's $200,000-plus annual income, such defections are costly not only...
Whereas many agree that the ad is offensive, overtly sexual, and in poor taste, it is not intuitively obvious to some why the ad is sexist. There are two reasons why it is sexist. First, women are objectified in order to sell products. Second, implicit in the Chanel ad is not only that women must use cosmetic products to be sexually appealing, but that they must also perform the appropriate acts. The lipstick perched between lip-sticked lips symbolically links the two ideas of sex appeal and of unequal sexual (and other) status. The cultural norm of female beauty allows...