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...dropped out of college and was putting all his time into marketing his company's soft, brightly colored leather sneakers. His timing was perfect. Reeboks became standard equipment for the suddenly booming women's aerobics movement. And they became such a hip fashion icon that in 1986 Mick Jagger had to write Fireman directly to request a pair because they were sold out in London. And everywhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebound For Reebok | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...Pastor, 42, figures that it takes about four years to learn how to make a forcola, and about 25 to learn it well. In addition to their very practical use on boats, the elbow-shaped forcole are classy wooden sculptures and Pastor has both Mick Jagger and architect I.M. Pei among his clients. He says the crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raider of a Lost Art | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...guess I'm just tired of geezer rock stars who won't hang up their leather pants. The Rolling Stones are contemplating another world tour. Attention readers and potential ticket buyers: Mick Jagger is older than George W. Bush. Do you really want to see him strutting his emaciated self across the stage? Like Madonna, he's another example of mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb. The Stones and the Who and Aerosmith - even U2, for that matter - don't so much reinvent themselves as become Madame Tussaud figures of themselves. And like those wax figures, the Stones look so eerily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Tired of Madonna — and All the Other Geezer Rockers | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...fogeys aren't going away. LVMH recently bought Pucci; the Gucci group is revamping Bottega Veneta; and no less venerable a jeweler than Asprey & Garrard has hired Jade Jagger (yep, Mick's daughter) and her partner as designers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Ball: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...fogeys aren't going away. LVMH recently bought Pucci; the Gucci group is revamping Bottega Veneta; and no less venerable a jeweler than Asprey & Garrard has hired Jade Jagger (yep, Mick's daughter) and her partner as designers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

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