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FASHION: Marc Jacobs' grunge-meets-glamour aesthetic is the hottest look on the catwalk...
Male designers are well known for their visions of female sexuality and glamour, but for decades the behind-the-seams story of fashion has been the influence of women not as models, but as makers and marketers of clothes. Designers like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Donna Karan and Jil Sander conjured entire fashion universes and great fortunes with ideas that revolutionized the way women dressed. Madeleine Vionnet reshaped the silhouette with her bias cut one seam coiling around the body and enhanced 1930s screen stars' sex appeal. Claire McCardell's Popover dress answered the sartorial prayers...
...other day, in the way that one does, I was looking at the July 1967 issue of Playboy. Of course, I was only interested in the articles, which was fortunate, because there was pretty much nothing but articles in the whole magazine. The scarce glamour shots-most of them as chaste as a church tea party-revealed a total of 19 nipples, of which just three, to my inexpert eye, were erect enough to hold a sunburst ornament safely in place...
Oscar season isn't just an awards show; it's the soirees that help provide glamour and lilt. And for planners, that can mean erecting the Cheops pyramid nearly overnight. "When you're building a party in a tent in the middle of a parking lot, quite a bit has to happen," says Cyd Wilson, an IN STYLE contributing editor who does the magazine's Golden Globes and Oscar bashes as well as PEOPLE's Screen Actors Guild Awards party. "We started a month earlier to compensate," she says. Yet last Monday she and her staff, still bleary from...
...prosperous Jewish parents, Newton fled from Hitler's Germany to Singapore, where he took up the camera, then to Australia, where he was discovered by Vogue. In London and New York, he developed the louche, provocative style of his breakthrough 1976 book, White Women. By bringing raw sex to glamour and anger to Eros, he displayed one of the defining sensibilities of the '70s and beyond. Feminists--and not just feminists--complained that his images degraded women. He insisted that women were always in the saddle, even when his women, cool and glaring, just might be pictured wearing...