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...lowest of the low in the fashion hierarchy. Surrounded by a mountain of ruffles, an abundance of silk and a stubborn rabbit pee stain, I spent my summer as a fashion assistant at Australian Vogue. Fashion assistants are generally held in about as much esteem as tapered-leg pants and Christina Aguilera; in a world where glamor is most accurately measured in units of champagne consumed, I lived the lifestyle of a teetotaller. Similarities between me and fellow novice “fash-mag” employee Carrie Bradshaw end with our riotous hairdos...
Carrie, for instance, would never have to deal with the rabbit dilemma. Ensconced in a closet optimistically known as the “fashion storeroom,” I held in one hand a Marty Samuels cotton voile broderie anglaise dress. I had begun to think in terms of such minutiae as “broderie anglaise” routinely, as one of my many dogsbody tasks included writing captions for clothes featured in photo shoots. In the other hand, I clutched industrial-strength stain remover which, even after hours of intense scrubbing, had failed to remove the aforementioned rabbit...
...faced with the task of informing an uptight store-owner that her thousand-dollar sample merchandise, entrusted to Vogue for the purposes of our seasonal fashion shoot, now featured an intriguing splatter-style motif. The rabbit had been whisked in at the last minute, after the stylist informed me in a stroke of artistic inspiration that the look she had envisaged for the story—“Harry Potter meets English private school meets upper-crust garden party”—necessitated the presence of something white and frolicky. It hadn’t been easy...
...Anthony Atala, of Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, is one of a team of researchers whose work harvesting rabbit penises in laboratory incubators has provided hope for a small but growing population of parents: those whose children are born with ambiguous genitalia...
...Doyle had two excellent films at Toronto, both directed by fellow-Aussie Phillip Noyce: The Quiet American, an acute adaptation of Grahame Greene's Vietnam novel with a lovely performance by Michael Caine; and Rabbit-Proof Fence, about aboriginal girls abducted into white families. Doyle's cinematography is a work of art?you have never seen a Saigon night so seductively menacing, an Outback sky quite that shade of blue?but it is not, alas, Hong Kong...