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...mind that an eating disorder is a possible diagnosis. “As recently as one year ago, patients have told me that their doctors had told them they weren’t struggling with an eating disorder because they’re male,” said Roberto Olivardia, a clinician specializing in eating disorders at McLean Hospital...
...lush boutiques can be found in every major fashion capital. His company's slump-defying sales - from €67 million in 1999 to €206 million last year - are the talk of the industry from Milan to Tokyo. The easy explanation for the success of the house of Roberto Cavalli is that his sexually charged designs returned to the runway in 1994 - the perfect time to fill a missing niche in the then-minimalist fashion landscape. But the real reason for Cavalli's triumph is his wife. In 1978 when Cavalli, then 37, met Eva Duringer, he was already...
...Roberto Cavalli isn't the only fashion company doing well in a shaky economy. Coach, Burberry, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Zara and Yves Saint Laurent are all selling well. So what's the magic formula for getting customers in the door in dire times...
...short of his 100th birthday, this comic muralist left an inadvertent history of 20th century entertainment. For dozens of dailies and weeklies but mainly for the New York Times, Hirschfeld drew--and drew out the spirit of--virtually every celebrity from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Roberto Benigni, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and caricature met character study. The fun in a Hirschfeld sketch increased after 1945, when his daughter Nina was born. He began concealing her cognomen in and around his portraits of famous men and women--in a Gwyneth Paltrow gown...
...Zero Mostel, he gave outsize snouts. Many women he saw as birds: Lynn Fontanne, Katharine Hepburn and others are long-necked swans. He was drawn to larger-than-life, larger-than-art figures, from the vaudeville clowns Weber and Fields to later, self-distorting creatures like Jerry Lewis and Roberto Benigni (naturally...