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...foray into fashion was a collaboration with the groovy British designer Ossie Clark in 1971. The shoes - with straps of green suede and fake cherries - were perfect. The heels - each six or seven inches of unsupported rubber crepe - were not. The models wearing them bounced and buckled down the runway at Clark's fashion show in the Royal Court. But never mind. The It-girls of the day - Bianca Jagger, Marisa Berenson - loved them despite the wobble. If the exhibition lacks anything, it's the stories like this one that lie behind the shoes. While he was impressing the women...
...maker to do so in over 80 years. He used the chance to promote a new department-store line of Warhol hats, which, while quirky and conceptual, lack the beauty of his earlier designs. But in times like these, a line in the store is worth two on the runway...
Bronson doesn't have Terkel's gift for conveying character through dialogue, and he can be very, very earnest. It would try the patience of a saint--be it St. Paul or St. Elmo--to listen to the overachieving ballet dancer--runway model--M.B.A. who moans on and on about how empty her life is. Maybe Bronson puts up with it because, even with the hopeless narcissists, he knows he's on the trail of something real: by and large, the interviews are scarily honest, with people sweating and crying and popping antidepressants as they fight to find themselves...
...group of conservatively dressed women upstage model Gisele Bundchen, who was wearing only lingerie and high heels? Fairly easily, considering the women stormed the runway Bundchen was stalking and carried signs labeling her "scum." The fracas occurred at a Victoria's Secret fashion/peep show taping for a CBS special. Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals oppose Bundchen's modeling work for a fur company. Bundchen remained unfazed as protesters were dragged offstage. Lest ugliness invade the vision of female loveliness and male fantasy, her interrupted turn down the runway was reshot...
...good as the Milan collections for spring 2003 were - and they were very good - the hands-down winner came from a company that didn't even put on a runway show. With its third collection by Tomas Maier, Bottega Veneta, the leather-goods house famous in the 1970s for its woven bags and the slogan "When your own initials are enough," confirmed expectations that it would be Gucci Group's next successful turnaround. When Gucci bought the company in February 2001, the designers were two British consultants whose attempts to revive the label included products like black catsuits with...