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Karl Lagerfeld is used to being imitated. "Chanel called it flattery," he shrugs. "For me, it's good because it pushes me to things they can't copy." By Chanel, he means Coco, the founder of the label Lagerfeld has headed for 22 years. "They" are spry fashion chains such as Zara and H&M, whose skill at reproducing luxury looks at affordable prices is driving designers to more-difficult-to-emulate extravagance in their ready-to-wear collections. At the recent shows in Milan and Paris, even the most jaded front-row fashionistas leaned forward for a closer look...
Karl Lagerfeld is used to being imitated. "Chanel called it flattery," he shrugs. "For me, it's good because it pushes me to things they can't copy." By Chanel, he means Coco, the founder of the label Lagerfeld has headed for 22 years. "They" are the fashion chains, whose skill at reproducing luxury looks at affordable prices is driving designers to new extravagance in their ready-to-wear collections. At the shows in Milan and Paris over the past two weeks, even the most jaded front-row fashionistas leaned forward for a closer look at the swathes of excess...
BILL MAHER got sued by ex--gal pal Nancy Johnson (a.k.a. centerfold Coco Johnsen). HE SAYS the suit is frivolous and false. SHE SAYS he backed out of plans to marry her and manhandled her at a party...
...fashioned TV set," says Martin Reynolds, an analyst at technology-consulting company Gartner in Stamford, Conn. If the Asian glut continues, chances are you'll be able to have a flat TV hanging in your living room long before that. --With reporting by Adam Pitluk/Dallas, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Coco Masters and Toko Sekiguchi/ Tokyo, and Joyce Huang/Taipei
...predicting the future so difficult? After all, if history is just one damn thing after another, shouldn't the future be more of the same? But over and over again, even our most highly educated guesses go disastrously wrong. (Here's Coco Chanel on the miniskirt, in 1966: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming...