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After an almost two-year hiatus, Roberto Menichetti, former creative director of Burberry and onetime Jil Sander designer, is back on the runway with a collection that will debut during New York Fashion Week. Expect a focus on distinctive fabrics--developed exclusively for Menichetti--subtle colors and a mix of luxury and affordable pieces. The eponymous line includes menswear, womenswear and accessories...
...wields considerable influence over American fashion. Runway shows don't start until she arrives. Designers succeed because she anoints them. Trends are created or crippled on her command. But Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue, says she is determined to use her power for good, not evil. Despite her reputation for being icy and inscrutable, despite the severe perfection of her hairstyle and wardrobe, Wintour has taken it upon herself to act as something of a den mother to fledgling designers and worthy causes...
...status among fashion publications--in both circulation and prestige. But she has brought the magazine's tone down from its Olympian heights, acknowledging that trends are as likely to start from the ground as be decreed from on high and offering tips on how to get runway looks for real-wage prices. Part of this is out of necessity: to maintain a high circulation, she must appeal to as broad an audience as possible. But she has proved herself committed to discovering and fostering new talent. In 2003, for example, she joined the Council of Fashion Designers of America...
...most sought-after models of the 1970s and '80s, Iman challenged the notions of beauty in the pages of fashion magazines. The Somalian native, now 48, has done the same in the world of cosmetics. When she stepped off the runway for good in 1989 Iman realized that other women of color were having the same problems with makeup that she had confronted before photo shoots. "As a model, I had to play chemist and mix and match foundations to find a skin tone suitable for me," she says...
...with a collection that questioned the very shape of women's bodies. Known as the bump collection, it deformed the silhouette with Quasimodo-style padded lumps placed strangely and strategically on models' backs, shoulders and hips. For spring 2004, when every designer was sending cliches of femininity down the runway, Kawakubo left many in the audience perplexed by presenting models in voluminous skirts cut from traditional Japanese fabrics. Instead of blouses, they wore sheer swaths of tulle over bare breasts. Even Kawakubo's perfumes defy convention. Odeur 53, created in 1998, has notes of nail polish and burnt rubber...