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...visual stylist, Chan can be brisk or suave. His 1989 Miracle (also known as The Chinese Godfather and Mr. Canton and Lady Rose), a kind of remake of Frank Capra's Lady for a Day, revels in supple tracking shots, elegant montages and a witty use of the wide screen. An American viewer may find the slapstick interludes overdone, but they are no harder to take than the scenes between dance routines in Astaire-Rogers movies. And it's in his production numbers-those double-time, intricately de-signed ballets of fists and feet-that Chan is unique, as star...
Where his roomate and stylist Blake Glaeson learned to cut hair: I think he used to cut shrubs...
...outre. She is Germany's Jil Sander, 50, whose extremely simple, graceful clothes have won legions of devotees among women accustomed to spending upwards of $2,500 for a jacket and a pair of trousers -- including such notable shoppers as Barbra Streisand, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and life- stylist Martha Stewart. Sander has turned her 20-year-old Hamburg atelier into a $200 million fashion-and-cosmetics empire, and she has joined Armani and Chanel as one of the three best-selling elite designers in the U.S. There are already 22 Sander boutiques worldwide; by the end of next year...
Under the management of impresario Charles L. Wagner, the elegant stylist McCormack grossed $5 million in performance fees from 1908 to 1920. McCormack was an Irish-born naturalized American, and in Ireland he went by the title of Count John McCormack, which was conferred on him in 1928 by Pope Pius XI. He was so popular that in 1938, the year of his teary farewell recital in London's Albert Hall, he was touted as a candidate for the Irish presidency...
...York some of the newer designers seemed to be talking only to one another. Sui, a smart stylist who is capable of authentic downtown chic, concentrated instead on jarring outfits that needed translation, either to fit the body or to decipher where they might possibly be worn. Britain's Tonya Sarne, who designs Ghost and was a big hit last year, seemed intent on damning British society rather than selling beautiful or interesting clothes. Bizarrely, several outfits were named for Prime Minister John Major. They consisted of clashing hodgepodges of colors, stripes, prints and waiflike little dresses that exposed...