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...issue deeply vexing to Kenneth Cole, who throughout his career has cannily linked the marketing of his product to liberal social causes, like homelessness and gun control. Cole says that while there are "inspired and bright people in our business, I seem to have found myself somewhat alone." He posits that many designers tend to filter out politics and "just try to interpret what's going on in the culture through a sense of sensuality ... Their art is where they feel comfortable." He claims to approach fashion differently, having come to it after studying law and political science...
Notwithstanding some irate letters, Cole says he has no fears about financial repercussions. "I think consumers are more enlightened for the most part than to change their shopping habits based on the designer's perspective," he says. Yet he is reluctant to define his advertising as political or use it to endorse a specific candidate. "I believe that most of our messages are social messages and human messages," he says, "and to the degree that you read them as political, they invariably get discounted." For many people reading Cole's latest print ads, however--such as "With...
Court TV plans to broadcast the trial, said Cole Thompson, a senior news producer at Catherine Crier Live...
...collages, murals, wallpaper border or giant stickers. The art is scanned and then imaginatively transformed into custom-made keepsakes and decorations. Prices range from $88 for 12 ft. of customized wallpaper border to $210 for a 30-in. by 40-in. collage. Visit memyroomandi.com for more information. --By Wendy Cole...
...Wodehouse's heart was in musical comedy. He was writing lyrics for London's West End in his 20s, and by 1917, five shows featuring his lyrics were playing simultaneously on Broadway. Commuting to the U.S., Wodehouse collaborated with Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter. "Musical comedy was my dish," Wodehouse wrote of those happy days. "I would rather have written Oklahoma! than Hamlet.'" But the real money was in Wooster-shire. After a stream of popular stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired...