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Last year China's magazine market totaled about $400 million in advertising, but with 20% annual growth, it would eclipse Europe's and Japan's by 2010. In India, where Maxim launched last month and Playboy promises a nude-free edition, $1.5 billion worth of print ads were sold last year. International editions are usually low-investment licensing deals. Maxim has 31 such editions, Rolling Stone 11. China requires foreign media to choose local partners, and neither it nor India has a standard for auditing circulation. But DeLuca isn't worried. "As they evolve, we will evolve, and business will...
...former Gucci guru, who has a special love for sunglasses, clearly sees bigger as better. Tattoo You Body art is back in fashion as brands like Ed Hardy T shirts and A & G cashmere flaunt tattoo motifs. Even Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesqui?re is selling tattoo-style T shirts. Nude is the New Black Designers have embraced a palette that's as fresh as a compact full of face powder. Makeup colors like ivory and blush dominate the latest collections and have even infiltrated Burberry's shoes. By Kate Betts...
...NUDE IS THE NEW BLACK Designers have embraced a palette that's as fresh as a compact full of face powder. Makeup colors like ivory and blush dominate spring collections and have even infiltrated Burberry's shoes...
...naked woman, her arm outstretched. She luxuriates like Eve in an arabesque of luminous lotus flowers, surrounded by lionesses with gleaming yellow eyes and other half-glimpsed animals from disparate continents. And in the most erotic work on view, the haunting Snake Charmer (1907), a woman's nude figure in dark silhouette stands by a river against an unearthly sunset - or is it moonrise? Flowers and grasses glow with an inner light. Her face is partly hidden by her flute and by the snake draped round her neck - we see only the pale glint of the whites of her eyes...
There's nothing sexy about bad publicity. Victoria's Secret has had its fair share over the years, usually fueled by critics of the retail company's suggestive lingerie ads or semi-nude fashion show, which returned this month after a two-year hiatus. But now the attacks are coming from a bunch of tree huggers in suits. Forest Ethics, an environmental-advocacy group, has launched a national campaign of protests, including some 150 last month at Victoria's Secret stores around the country...