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...sending girls into fits of hysteria. At 25, her mum was photographing celebrities. At the same tender age, STELLA MCCARTNEY, daughter of Paul and Linda, is taking over from Karl Lagerfeld at the House of Chloe. McCartney had her own fledgling biz, but will work exclusively for the French label. It's not just her famous surname that got her the job. She studied fashion at London's Central St. Martin's College, which is where John Galliano (Christian Dior) and Alexander McQueen (Givenchy) learned their stripes...
Blige is ready to step out. Over the past year, she's split from her original producer and mentor, Sean ("Puffy") Combs; left her old record label, Uptown; and re-dedicated herself to spirituality. Her third album, Share My World (MCA), comes out this week, and it's a winner. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter's groundbreaking first album sold 2 million copies; her second, the spottily brilliant My Life, sold 3 million; both spawned countless sound-alikes. The bold but ultimately mercenary ghetto-sex-bomb posturing of rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, the emotionally blunt crooning...
Share My World is her first album without Combs, who has become mired in controversy after the shooting of his close friend rapper Christopher ("Notorious B.I.G.") Wallace (Combs is the head of Bad Boy Records, and Wallace recorded for that label). Combs added a unifying, streetwise grace to Blige's albums; without him, her music sounds more marketable but less funky. Blige gives different answers about their split. "It's not a big change for me," she says at one point, adding that "sometimes you have to move...
Paul Conti (who, like Tom and Tom, has no corporate title but appears naked on the Nantucket Nectars label), heads the juice-bar project for Nantucket Nectars. Conti says the company did not foresee Harvard's opposition to their juice dreams...
...want to bring the label to life," Conti said. "We want to provide a venue for people to come by and meet Tom and Tom--to meet the new neighbors...