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...Then again, Joyce was no Heidi Klum. O.K., Project Runway, Klum's Bravo reality show about fashion designers, is not a masterwork of Western civilization. But it pulls off a rare feat: it makes the creative process entertaining. In Season 1 last winter, a cast of wannabe Vera Wangs squared off in design challenges that included sewing outfits from grocery-store items (the best entries used a lawn chair and cornhusks). In Season 2 (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), one designer concocts a dress so audacious it may fall apart on the runway: it's held together by magnets. Other television...
CHARITY When Kenneth Cole appeared on the runway at the end of his spring show wearing a Red Cross T shirt signaling a call to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, the message was clear: the biggest trend in fashion this year might just be charity. Cole, the board chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, will debut a showstopping ad campaign next month on World AIDS Day. Other fashion insiders are on the same track. Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Lauren held a national denim drive, targeting college campuses and challenging young Americans to help affordable-housing groups by donating...
...because they’re our friends.” Whitman says thoughtfully: “Both of our social lives have given us a good look at many different women,” as well as helping them get to know what she calls their demographic. THE RUNWAY...
...began to let the male guests down from the balcony where they had been sequestered. The invitation list was exclusive and, given that Lewis Albert is a women’s collection, largely female. (An e-mail acquired by FM politely disinvited many of the male guests to the runway show two days before, on the grounds of “the tremendous amount of RSVPs from young, fashionable ladies (potential Lewis Albert clients),” but invited them to the open-bar reception.) The entire Bee, including the punch class, was invited. Whitman seated the guests herself, seating...
After a brief speech by Whitman and Alissa M. Gordon ’06, who worked on the corporation over the summer but left the company shortly after the runway show, the models began streaming out. The crowd became visibly excited when certain pieces emerged, such as the signature dress with flower petals on the straps. But for the most part they behaved politely, only murmuring to friends behind cupped palms. An upbeat techno playlist, which Remele later reprised at his trunk show, obscured their infrequent chatter. Most of the women in the audience were dressed as formally...