Word: julienning
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...firm is not yet profitable, but it is viable. Vivendi stock is about $26 after touching a low of around $9 in August 2002, and Merrill Lynch last month became the latest investment bank to upgrade the stock from neutral to buy. Thanks to Fourtou, says Merrill analyst Julien Roch, "Vivendi is now in the best shape it has been for a long time...
...centered on Tom Ford's departure from Gucci, there were other transitions, including Michael Kors, who is moving on after seven years at Céline. His farewell show included an homage to - no surprise - fashion icons of the '50s and '60s, especially Audrey Hepburn. At Givenchy, Welsh designer Julien Macdonald ended what is expected to be his last season after three years with a Hepburn homage of his own. Alexander McQueen, who had been rumored to be taking the creative director's job at Yves Saint Laurent - he turned it down - dazzled with a show that had the effortlessness...
John Galliano was predictably unpredictable at Christian Dior; Julien Macdonald went back to basics at Givenchy; Karl Lagerfeld played with pretty at Chanel; and Donatella Versace retreated to the Versace boutique. At a time when the world's economy is shaky at best, the designers at the haute couture shows in Paris last week took no risks. They each did what was expected of them - even if that meant the unexpected. This time Galliano, Dior's designer, travelled to Asia, bringing back giant kimonos, hats that looked like ancient buildings, and two troupes of Chinese acrobats. The effect nearly made...
...appropriate that blaxploitation's theatrical tribute came this summer from a pair of popcorn movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...
...same tension as exists in much gangsta rap). The documentary confirms blaxploitation's lasting influence on music and movies by interviewing Afeni Shakur (mother of late rapper Tupac) and Quentin Tarantino, the white boy whom blaxploitation made. The Oscars may not recognize the legacy of blaxploitation anytime soon. But, Julien shows, the world outside the academy is full of fans who know it and feel...