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Lesser divas have aped MADONNA'S look for years. Now the woman who made crucifixes and cowboy hats chic is accused of ripping off another style icon--deceased French fashion photographer Guy Bourdin. Bourdin's son filed a copyright-infringement suit last week, claiming the images in Madonna's video for Hollywood--including one of the star twirling in an office chair in her lingerie--virtually duplicate 11 pictures by the influential lensman. "Madonna is certainly a fan of [Bourdin's] work," her publicist said, adding that the singer had not yet read the claim. If Madge has to settle...
...stark cover photograph of Johnny Cash. "That magnificent face had the appearance of one of America's Founding Fathers or a pioneer who pushed westward over the Appalachian Mountains," wrote a Floridian. Asked a woman from New Jersey: "Was that a picture of Cash or of another musical icon, Ludwig van Beethoven?" And a Rhode Islander offered her thanks "for the wonderful cover portrait of Cash. It is as beautiful as a Rembrandt etching and as welcome as a snapshot from a friend...
...bespoke Savile Row suit is a British icon, right up there with the Beatles, the Queen and the red double-decker bus. So you should probably be sitting down for this: Kilgour French Stanbury, tailors to the well-heeled and well-dressed, are making some of their suits in Shanghai. Why? The same reason anybody makes anything in China these days: it's a lot cheaper. The Shanghai suits start at $1,650, a mighty markdown from the $5,800 for the made-in-London versions. But is it still a Savile Row suit if it's made in China...
Occupying the site of a former factory along the Charles River, Peabody Terrace is a Modernist icon...
...Greco--"the Greek"--because he was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete. At the time, 1541, the island was a colony of Venice, but one that looked east in artistic matters to the traditions of the Byzantine. By his 20s he was already a recognized local practitioner of the religious-icon style. His gifts and ambition eventually took him to Venice, where his art was transformed by the twisting energies and sensual palettes of Titian and Tintoretto, all of which he turned to his own purposes. In The Purification of the Temple, a scene that he produced in many versions over...