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Variously described as understated and elusive, Watanabe nevertheless hasn't shied away from making bold, even shocking, statements on the runway. He famously bucked the minimalist lockstep of the mid-'90s to unleash a collection of clothing made of candy-colored polyvinyl chloride...
McGrath's range is as varied as the colors she uses. Four years ago, Giorgio Armani, the master of understated elegance, tapped McGrath to help create his namesake cosmetics line. That's an assignment head snappingly different from her runway work, particularly with designer John Galliano. At his spring 2003 ready-to-wear collections, an homage in part to India's Bollywood film industry, Galliano created an outrageous, exuberant circus with models in sky-high headdresses and 6-in. platform heels. McGrath drew on the deep pigments associated with India, covering models' faces--and any body part not concealed...
...would like to see young fashion designers learn how to cut a dress, how to do a fitting before becoming full-fledged designers. Clothes made just for the runway, to impress with fantastic shows, don't achieve the same results...
...turns out that that Andrea Sachs wears Manolo Blahniks and Jimmy Choos, while I wear Nikes. That Andrea Sachs works as an assistant for the imperious editor of Runway magazine, while I work at TIME, covering the book beat. Still, people in the fashion world will probably be interested in the (endless) complaints of the fashionable Andrea, since the book's author, Lauren Weisberger, used to be the assistant of Vogue's uber-editor Anna Wintour. Could any real editor be as unreasonable as the novel's Miranda Priestly, or as greedy for high-end booty from designers...
...fashion publishing by age 23 ain't so bad. How else can you get a book contract at 24? Sylvia Plath wrote the great Conde Nast novel, The Bell Jar, in 1963, and her crown is secure. Lighten up, and enjoy the show on the runway. And please don't confuse me with any loose-lipped assistants...