Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What are your feelings on using film stars instead of supermodels to represent fashion? Alexander Dreussi, Canton, OhioA celebrity can convey a message much quicker and much more clearly than a model. For example, for my menswear line, I'm working with [Grey's Anatomy star] Patrick Dempsey at the moment. The enthusiasm from people is very serious. They look at the campaign with Dempsey as enormous because he represents the kind of man that every woman wants next to her and every man can recognize himself...
...think the fashion industry should make clothes for plus-sized women? Tara McCullough, Glendale, Ariz.Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like...
Italy aside, which country's or city's fashion sense do you most admire, and why? David John Landy, DublinI do admire England because they are eccentric. I admire America because they follow fashion...
...there a moment in your life where you felt like quitting the fashion industry? Dian Pasquinal Kaur, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThe moment I felt like that was right after the death of my brother. I wanted nothing to do with fashion anymore, because of the pain of losing my brother-I thought fashion would not exist without him. Then I thought, Gianni wouldn't like this. He would love me to continue his job and continue to fight for the Versace brand to survive. That made me find the strength...
...mainstream and has not invested in them. (His movies are distributed by the indie Lionsgate.) Nor does he get much help from critics, whose reactions to his work range mostly from dismissive to baffled. His wild concoctions of brassy humor and fulsome sentiment seem to them out of fashion without being smartly retro. Perry must figure his critics have their minds made up in advance; he doesn't offer the press early screenings of his movies, including his latest, the film version of Meet the Browns, which opens March...