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Back then even the fashion press?which now seems more interested in celebrity mating habits than in the art of making beautiful clothes?used to list the textile mills where these raw materials of fashion dreams were woven. A journalist on deadline who now might be more familiar with the spelling of Lindsay Lohan's name once had to know how to spell the names of the famous fabric houses: Ratti, Bucol, Gandini, Clerici, Guigou, Mantero and, of course, Abraham, the Swiss fabric house owned by Gustav Zumsteg, the late, great textile designer who invented the stiffly finished silk gazar...
Piaf's life story is as familiar to the French as her catalog of hits. And like any good tale, it's often told with much poetic license. The standard version goes something like this: born on a Paris sidewalk, Piaf was raised in her grandmother's brothel in Normandy before her acrobat father took her back to her birthplace. After cabaret owner Louis Leplée discovered her singing in the street, Piaf was soon topping the bill in the city's most exalted venues and conquering America. Oh, and don't forget the miracle that cured her childhood...
Adams and Sprenger share an intuitive ability to foresee how a garment or object will best play for the store. They know their customers?or "guests," as they quaintly refer to them?better than anyone. The designers they partner with, themselves unassailable control freaks and not always familiar with the vagaries of large-scale production, are inclined to see their point. "It's like a whole new world to figure out," admits McCollough. "Target interested me because they are more mass market than my company," says Sarafpour. Exposure in 1,494 stores, as well as royalties, doesn't hurt either...
...international superstar” by Pudding members, also had to reenact a scene from the movie “Braveheart,” rallying the troops to fight. The catch, however, was that he had to speak in the voice of a neurotic man—a part quite familiar to Stiller given his role in the movies “Meet the Parents” and “Along Came Polly.” The producers said the roast was a success and that Stiller was a great sport.“He jumped right in there...
...Shakespeare observed in “Othello,” “Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used...