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...days leading up to his recent Gucci spring 2004 runway show, Tom Ford was distracted. Contract negotiations with Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR), the French retail group that controls Gucci Group, were not going well. But that didn't stop the designer from interrupting a fitting to ask an assistant to dash over to a nearby restaurant with a Polaroid camera. Ford was meeting some journalists there, and he wanted to make sure the restaurant had the right look. When it comes to image, Ford likes to control every detail, right down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Bowing Out | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...will take its time finding successors to Ford. It has formed a search committee and probably won't make an announcement before April. Early bets are on Alexander McQueen to design Gucci, and Marc Jacobs for YSL (although his contract with Louis Vuitton may be unbreakable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Bowing Out | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...lived monthly Rosie. The charge, as articulated by G+J CEO Daniel Brewster Jr.: she "walked away from her obligations" after a battle over editorial control of the magazine. O'Donnell has countersued for $125 million, charging that, by cutting her out of key decisions, G+J violated the contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rosie The Riveting | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...Will Eisner's "A Contract with God," published in 1978, gets the credit for being the first graphic novel, though it was not actually the first long-form graphic story nor the first use of the phrase. It was, however, the first marriage of the term, which appeared on the cover, and the intent of "serious" comix in book form. "It was intended as a departure from the standard, what we call 'comic book format,'" Will Eisner recently told TIME.comix. "I sat down and tried to do a book that would physically look like a 'legitimate' book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Graphic Novel Silver Anniversary | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

Even then the terminology didn't really fit. "A Contract with God," was actually four short stories and not like a traditional novel at all. Art Spiegelman, author of the comix Holocaust memoir "Maus," recalled when "Contract" first came out. "I liked one of the stories very much but it didn't register with me as having anything to do with what I had already climbed on my isolated tower to try to make, which was a long comic book that would need a bookmark." In the past 25 years the meaning of the phrase has only gotten hazier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Graphic Novel Silver Anniversary | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

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