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...fray. After he showed a delicious meze of Middle Eastern--and African-inspired silhouettes in September 2001, two days before the Twin Towers fell, he says he was accused by the tabloids of sympathizing with the enemy. "No one says anything about [designers such as] Michael Kors except 'Great skirt,'" Adrover says. "We have great skirts too. For us they say, 'Maybe there's a Taliban connection.'" To make matters worse, the Leiber Group, the luxury-apparel conglomerate that had acquired Adrover in April 2000, withdrew its backing in early October...
Alexander McQueen has spent a decade wiping the smiles off fashion-industry faces. In 1993, when the Londoner--now one of international fashion's great talents--launched himself, it was with a tiny fashion collection in an upstairs room. He showed a sensible skirt--printed with images of an electric chair...
This page, left to right: Beaded top, skirt and flat T-bar shoes by Prada; vintage Courreges dress from Decades; hot pants by Prada; neon-yellow shoes by Helmut Lang; satin coatdress by Gucci; beaded shoes by Missoni...
...three fellow salespeople were shockingly cool. The day before, I was told, they had sold clothes to Kyra Sedgwick and Jessica Seinfeld's stylist. Also that day, one salesperson, after seeing a woman mistakenly try on a skirt as a tube top, sold it to her that way. It takes some ingenuity to sell clothes. I'm told that if you act a little bit gay, women will let you see them naked in the dressing room. I'd be very good at that part...
...received, 45 contained photos?and half of those were pranks. Despite sincere tips on underage smoking and illegal parking, exactly zero crimes have been solved thanks to civilian sleuths. Not to say camera phones haven't kept the authorities busy: police have received a slew of complaints of digital skirt peeping and sundry reports of other, less felonious forms of tele-mischief such as distributing embarrassing photos of classmates over the Web. It seems that Japan's perverts and bullies have a faster high-tech learning curve than do its do-gooders...