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...people on the planet, the foul-mouthed ruffian with a sublime eye and adroit hands. His death on Feb. 11 at the age of 40 was in keeping with this theme: on the cusp of showing a new collection at Paris fashion week, the head of his own profitable label could apparently see no joy in what lay before him. McQueen died the same way he did everything else: unexpectedly, controversially and as unbelievably as possible...
...short career, McQueen was named British Designer of the Year four times and Designer of the Year in the U.S. once, and was working as creative director for Givenchy when he was very publicly poached by Tom Ford to do the same for Gucci. His label was making inroads in the U.S. market, and he recently launched the slightly cheaper McQ and went into partnership with Target. Last year he became the first major designer to do a live webcast of his show. Everything suggested he was a man who had hit his stride...
...explain how the label "the Brat Pack" came from one night many of these stars had on the town with a reporter from New York magazine. Regardless of how it was intended, the actors took it as this kind of negative term. A lot of them were hurt. They felt, understandably, that the moniker was a little offensive or that it summed them up too easily. It had a very sad impact on their personal lives at the time - these actors really were each other's best friends and lovers until that article ran. After, a lot of them told...
...term affect their careers? I really believe that some of these actors could have gone on to even greater things professionally had the label not been stuck on them. Many of them were serious actors who had studied with important teachers and had received rave reviews. On the other hand, the label is such a big part now of their chapter in pop-culture history, so it's kind of hard to imagine them without...
Concerned that too many ALS patients pursue sketchy treatments they discover online, Bedlack and about 40 other directors of ALS clinics set up a Twitter feed in April where patients can ask questions about off-label therapies. A team of doctors then investigates each query and posts their medical opinion online. "Everyone's heart is in the right place, but not everyone has the knowledge to do this the right way," Bedlack says of the Patient 2.0 movement...