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...trim blonde in a tailored suit. "When celebrities come out with their own products--Rocky Graziano's spaghetti sauce, Mickey Mantle's barbecue sauce, Nolan Ryan's All-Star Fruit Snacks, Gloria Vanderbilt's salad dressing, Reggie Jackson's candy bar, Carl Yastrzemski's Big Yaz Bread, Diane von Furstenberg's facial tissue, Bill Blass's chocolates, Richard Simmons's Salad Spray, Tommy Lasorda's spaghetti sauce, Yves St. Laurent's cigarettes, Frank Sinatra's neckties--all examples of products these famous people promoted with unsatisfactory results. There's never been a real celebrity success in the food business...
...last season's sexy, corseted silhouette for the safer harbor of pretty, soft dresses and colorful, easy sportswear pieces that make consumers feel good. And many of the most popular trends, such as flapper-style dresses and wide-cut pleated pants from designers like Marc Jacobs and Diane von Furstenberg, harked back to carefree moments in American fashion like the jazz age of the late 1920s and early '30s or the sexually liberated...
...dressing room and then say, 'Why do these fit funny?'" The would-be clients are often embarrassed by their mistake, but Marin County's pregnant fashionistas are thrilled that mainstream designers are finally creating clothes for their expanding waistlines. Over the past two years, couturiers like Chaiken, Diane von Furstenberg, Lilly Pulitzer and Anna Sui have all made their maternity-wear debuts...
...cool party going on and Reebok wasn't invited," says Jan Sharkansky, vice president of classic lifestyle marketing at Reebok, describing the company before it entered into high-profile partnerships. "Then they got some cool friends." The company's biggest co-branding coup was in teaming with Von Furstenberg, who designed a collection of dresses for Venus Williams (she has a $40 million contract with the athletic-wear brand). It was the first designer tennis line to appear on the women's professional circuit...
...never heard a designer say he doesn't want an African-American or Hispanic model to represent the brand. "He'll describe the feel and inspiration for the collection, and we'll send as many models, regardless of race, that fit that description," she says. Says designer Diane von Furstenberg: "Sometimes you're not thinking about race; you just cast what's available. You don't actually think, 'Oh, my God. Do I have enough black girls?'" Nevertheless, Von Furstenberg's show at the presentations of the fall ready-to-wear collections in February was rare in that it featured...