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...into a luxury conglomerate that in 2002 had revenues of about $1.9 billion. Her power, first manifested in the minimal black nylon backpack draped over every influential arm in the '90s, also became incarnate in such celebrities as Uma Thurman, twirling down the red carpet in ethereal Prada-designed Oscar gowns...
Fast-forward several decades, and try to predict what historians will choose as the representative fashion of our decade. Will it be the ubiquitous Gucci ads featuring Amazons in tight leather? Nicole Kidman's haute couture Oscar gown? Probably not, says Van den Bosch. "If you don't see it on the people, it won't be a fashion...
Other December releases fared just as poorly: besides The Last Samurai, holiday big shots like Big Fish, Something’s Gotta Give, and Girl with a Pearl Earring were largely ignored when the Oscar nominations were released. And this year’s Best Picture category is a reverse image of its recent self, with four out of this year’s five nominees in theaters by November. Only the endlessly hyped The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, whose Best Picture nomination had been a given for months, premiered during the holidays...
...would largely ignore the year’s holiday releases. At the same time, the nominees that the voters selected to replace these spurned December brides were utterly unpredictable. In a normal year, there are only one or two major surprises in a slate of Oscar nominees—think Robert Forster for Jackie Brown, Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her, or Ethan Hawke for Training...
...likely; if you look at this year’s Best Picture nominees, they’re mostly drawn from the same old strain of Oscar bait: there are gritty epics (The Return of the King and Master and Commander), lacquered period pieces (Seabiscuit), and scenery-chewing dramas (Mystic River). The Academy’s voting deadline may have changed, but their tastes have stayed the same...