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...turn heads, whether they're McQueen groupies in never-worn-before pieces or editors in origami hats or vintage polka-dot bow-tie blouses. But at last fall's show, the figure most eyes followed was that of a handsome stranger who arrived with Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International, was greeted warmly by Domenico De Sole, CEO of Gucci Group (owner of the McQueen label), and shown to an envied front-row seat. The fashion plebeians who didn't recognize him or his power-broker companions couldn't miss his three-quarter-length woven leather coat by Bottega...
...fashion sovereign who resembles Giorgio Armani, once her boss. In Full Bloom (Dutton), Caroline Hwang, a former editor at Glamour, tells the story of a Korean-American woman climbing the fashion-magazine ladder. And there's another--Bergdorf Blondes (Miramax), by Plum Sykes, a Vogue editor. Leaks at Conde Nast? There's an absolute flood...
...must admit that it's hard to work up much sympathy for her. After all, having a vantage point at the top of fashion publishing by age 23 ain't so bad. How else can you get a book contract at 24? Sylvia Plath wrote the great Conde Nast novel, The Bell Jar, in 1963, and her crown is secure. Lighten up, and enjoy the show on the runway. And please don't confuse me with any loose-lipped assistants...
...Caricaturists, whose pen is meaner than the sword, are supposed to believe that cruelty is an inalienable right. Hirschfeld didn't hold to that creed. Or maybe his pen and his personality were too ebullient to be bilious; the Nast or nasty drawing, he seemed to think, didn't demean the subject so much as the artist. He had an inability to find the jugular in a entertainment figure. He did go for the jungular, exaggerating facial features and specializing in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism: he turned men into beasts. To Mickey Rooney, Bert Lahr and Zero Mostel...
...awesome." Roger calls it "scripted" but says he and his wife just laughed about all the orders they got from CBS and Bride's. ("There was no intention to say it's got to be this or that kind of wedding," says Peter Hunsinger, president of the Conde Nast Bridal Group, which publishes Bride's. "We worked with Genelle and Roger every step.") The couple say they love each other deeply and that any problems they had before 9/11 weren't serious. As for any internal injuries, Genelle, who isn't regularly seeing a therapist, says, "God is my psychiatrist...