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Luxury designer retailers and fashion houses have taken most of the worst blows, with some, such as Bill Blass, Fortunoff, Christian Lacroix and IT Holding SpA (which owns the Gianfranco Ferre label) either filing for bankruptcy protection or liquidating their assets. Several more, such as Prada, Bulgari, Mariella Burani and Valentino Fashion Group, are treading water under a tidal wave of debt...
Whether it's a fashion statement or a financial one, fragrance designers are in the black for fall, introducing seductive scents in dark flacons. The perfumes are all marked by sultry notes, with hints of amber and rose in Prada's L'Eau Ambrée and Natori from Josie Natori, and spicy cardamom and cedarwood in D&G's Le Bateleur and Back to Black: Aphrodisiac by Kilian. The striking vials suit the bold '80s mood that recently overtook runways...
...luxury journalism—to chronicle the creation of a single issue in his new documentary.At the helm of this extraordinarily influential monthly fashion tome is editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Her ubiquitous sunglasses and the withering glare behind them provided fodder for “The Devil Wears Prada,” a book and major motion picture centered on an unnecessarily cruel caricature of a boss—one part business savvy, three parts bloodthirst. Yet “The September Issue” showcases a witty, driven businesswoman with a demanding work ethic, not unlike that...
...Finally, the Vogue doc The September Issue opened in six theaters to a very glamorous $240,000. Its per-screen average was the highest of the weekend - and why not? Vogue editor Anna Wintour, whom Streep parodied in The Devil Wears Prada, has a fearsome reputation in the fashion world. Whether in horror films or art films, audiences flocked to see killers with style. And that's a dream Hollywood would enjoy having over and over...
...year-old former model, Coddington moved behind the scenes after a car accident scarred her face. She arrived at American Vogue on the same day in July 1988 as Wintour. She, too, no doubt wears Prada, but the chief impression we get of her is that of a beautiful elderly hippie in droopy black sacks who drifts through Vogue's corridors in a haze of either artistic irritation or inspiration. If Wintour is the Pope (as one Vogue staffer calls the boss), Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel 12 times a year amid...