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Especially since many luxury-goods companies are now paying for overreaching in the '90s. Prada, which acquired Jil Sander and Helmut Lang back then, has been struggling with the resultant $743.6 million debt. And LVMH is reportedly looking to sell the Donna Karan company. Then there are retreating industry stars like Calvin Klein, who retired last summer, and Donatella Versace, who in an attempt to curb financial woes is closing stores and cutting budgets...
...Closet is the consignment shop for the style-conscious male. Finds include Thomas Pink, Donna Karan and Izod oxford shirts ranging from $24-$29, Ferragamo loafers for $66 and snazzy overcoats starting at $88. Stetsons are for sale for $88, and a drool-worthy, red velvet D&G blazer...
...shock." American fashion, of course, has never been big on risk taking. Designers in the U.S. are predictable in their dedication to sportswear, leaving shock tactics to their European colleagues. Along with predictability comes safety, a belief that certain designers--the triumvirate of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan--are fashion's bedrock. But all of a sudden there was a tectonic shift, as if Klein's departure left everything else on shifting sand...
...many totally perfect, gorgeous hair-body-skin-face-teeth can you see and still have it spark your interest?" asks Trey Laird, president and executive creative director of Laird + Partners, the ad agency that handles Donna Karan. "There's something about a real person--and you can say celebrities aren't real people, but they are. They just happen to have a very visible job. They're not perfect, they have a life, and they make it a little more emotional, give it more of an interest, more of an intrigue. It makes it real...
Such is the case with Liya. After the Gucci show, she started walking the runways for Donna Karan, Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana, among others; she frequently appears in American Vogue and had an entire issue dedicated to her by the magazine's French edition, becoming just the third black model to appear on its cover. In April she signed a multimillion-dollar contract with cosmetics giant Estee Lauder, the first time in its 57-year history that the company, already represented by Elizabeth Hurley and Carolyn Murphy, signed such a deal with a black model...