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...offered by cosmetics companies like MAC, Shu Uemura and Sephora, are back. Once considered too gaudy for all but show girls and drag queens, fake lashes were a fashion faux pas in the '80s and '90s. But after Jennifer Lopez showed up at the 2001 Oscars wearing red-fox-fur lashes, the idea began to come back into vogue. "Makeup artists have been using false lashes for fashion shows and on celebrities for the past few years," says Chris Salgardo, general manager of Shu Uemura, which carries 20 styles of lashes. "It took this season's shift toward more glamorous...
While black will never exactly be dethroned, a new hue is starting to seep through the design world: aqua. On runways in New York City last month tipping the spring 2005 look, influential designers like Narciso Rodriguez and Michael Kors splashed aqua onto everything from bustiers to fur boleros. Their inspirations, they said, were the surfer scene on Brazil's beaches and the watery blues of the Aegean Sea. They probably also owe something to textile trade shows like Paris' Première Vision, which designers visit to get an early look at the trends in fabric prints and colors...
...cosmetics companies like MAC, Shu Uemura and Sephora. Once considered too gaudy for all but show girls, drag queens and Tammy Faye Bakker, fake lashes were a fashion faux pas in the '80s and '90s. But after Jennifer Lopez showed up at the 2001 Oscars wearing red-fox-fur lashes, the idea began to come back into vogue. "Makeup artists have been using false lashes for fashion shows and on celebrities for the past few years," says Chris Salgardo, general manager of Shu Uemura, which carries 20 styles of lashes. "It took this season's shift toward more glamorous, decorated...
...wild is 5,000 to 7,000. Your story also reported that as many as 7,000 tigers are thought to be kept as pets in the U.S. What an indictment! It is small consolation that they are at least still alive, however miserably, and not being worn as fur coats. JAN SCHAAFSMA Betty's Bay, South Africa
...Luxury is so prevalent now," says Carol Brodie, spokeswoman for jewelry company Harry Winston. "You see so much heavy-duty cashmere and fur in the stores. It hasn't been like this since the 1980s." Indeed, the fall collections are among the most extravagant in recent history, with fur trim and crystal beading showing up on every tweed coat and charmeuse evening dress. Thanks to the weak dollar against the euro, prices for these clothes are up a whopping 20%, but so are sales. Houses like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Gucci have all reported double-digit increases...