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...fashion would be safer in a museum. Fashion is art, after all. If painting the nude is considered the highest of artistic genres, then clothing the body is in the least soft sculpture. One look at the designs of haute couturiers such as John Galliano for the House of Dior can't help but draw comparisions to the surrealism of Magritte and Escher. Yet fashion is hardly a material imitation of the beaux-arts. Of the two forces blurring the distinction between haute couture and prt--porter, it is the upstarts who are keeping fashion alive. From the beautiful origami...
...cover at least some spa treatments if prescribed by a physician. Better hotels simply have to have one, and companies like Hewlett-Packard are hiring on-site massage therapists for employees. Big Business has had its head turned in other ways too. The French giant LVMH, owner of Dior and Givenchy, last spring bought New York City's ultrahip Bliss spa for an estimated $30 million. Cosmetic companies like Estee Lauder are competing as well, with growing chains of day spas across the country...
Designers often more associated with whimsy than worry seemed to project some millennial anxieties at last week's couture shows in Paris. John Galliano's models, left, sported hats adorned with dead foxes and pheasants--demonstrating how Dior customers can simultaneously snare a meal and a fashion statement. Alexander McQueen at Givenchy suggested that not only supermodels but also the human race may be extinct next century, exhibiting his clothes on fiber-glass mannequins that briefly popped up from the floorboards. And Paco Rabanne illustrated his prediction that the Mir space station will kill thousands when it crash-lands...
Along the city's broad boulevards lined with exquisite edifices, waiters balancing silver trays of champagne and espresso cups bustle among outdoor tables set under tasseled awnings, tipped at just the right angle. One after the other appear countless fashionable boutiques selling Givenchy, Christian Dior or one of France's many other high-profile designers, perfumeries into which saunter ladies who would be at home in the pages of Vogue magazine and hair salons whose attendants dawdle at the door with an insouciance that Marlon Brando would envy. Even the chestnut trees on the elegant Champs-Elysees hang their branches...
...essence of vengeance," says DOMENICA CAMERON-SCORSESE of her role as an unhappy specter in the film Bullfighter. And apparently vengeance is well dressed this year. In her first big screen role, the 22-year-old daughter of director Martin Scorsese and author Julia Cameron wears gowns by Christian Dior designer and fashion darling John Galliano. As for her own fashion sense, Cameron-Scorsese says she's a chameleon, having split time between New Mexico with her mom and New York with her dad. As a child she had bit parts in Scorsese films. Would she like to work with...