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This page, left to right: Beaded top, skirt and flat T-bar shoes by Prada; vintage Courreges dress from Decades; hot pants by Prada; neon-yellow shoes by Helmut Lang; satin coatdress by Gucci; beaded shoes by Missoni...
...pieces or editors in origami hats or vintage polka-dot bow-tie blouses. But at last fall's show, the figure most eyes followed was that of a handsome stranger who arrived with Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International, was greeted warmly by Domenico De Sole, CEO of Gucci Group (owner of the McQueen label), and shown to an envied front-row seat. The fashion plebeians who didn't recognize him or his power-broker companions couldn't miss his three-quarter-length woven leather coat by Bottega Veneta. Who was the guy smiling and schmoozing and wearing...
...Majed al-Sabah opened Villa Moda, a 100,000-sq.-ft. mall-cum-boutique (he calls it a "luxury bazaar") in a glass box on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The $20 million building is nearly as impressive as the swarm of big brands--Fendi, Marni, Ferragamo, Prada, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent--clustered in mini shops inside, along with a Botox bar and a traditional Middle Eastern restaurant (with nontraditional Cappellini furniture) overlooking Kuwait Bay. To make sure the opening didn't go unnoticed, al-Sabah offered members of the international fashion set free business-class flights so they...
...fashionista to name her favorite brand, and chances are you never heard of it before. Does Bella Dahl ring a bell? Or Ballroom? The Reeds or the Wrights? You may have a closet crammed with Gucci stilettos and Prada backpacks, and you may even know how to pronounce Nicholas Ghesquiere's last name, but these days if you really want to hug the trends, you need to have some hot little label that nobody's heard of. In the new millennium, it's the small, unknown fashion brands that are wielding power and influence over both the consumer...
...which they beg total strangers to fund their cause. Internet panhandling got national attention last June, when Karyn Bosnak, an out-of-work TV executive who had racked up $20,000 in credit-card debt, posted the site savekaryn.com to help pay off her Bergdorf's, Prada and Gucci bills. "Nothing is really in it for you," she wrote. "But I do believe ... if you help me, then someday someone might help you." It worked. Spurred by stories on the Today show and elsewhere, Web surfers sent Bosnak checks, credit-card numbers and cash to the tune...