Word: stylistics
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There will always be young designers trying their luck in the fashion biz, nascent talents like Behnaz Sarafpour and guerrilla stylist Imitation of Christ. There will always be a pantheon of one namers: Oscar, Donna, Calvin and Ralph. But apart from the unstoppable engine that is Michael Kors and the freakishly gifted Marc Jacobs, there are few American designers under 50 whose fare satisfies the fashionistas forlong...
Posen already plays their game like an old hand. A lifelong New Yorker, he has networked more tightly than Kevlar. He went to the same high school as celebrity-loving painter Julian Schnabel's daughters Stella and Lola. Stella is now his stylist--"and my muse," he says. At an art opening, he met Interview magazine editor Ingrid Sischy, possibly the most connected woman in New York City, who in turn introduced him to powerhouse publicist and show producer Ed Filipowski of KCD (clients include Tom Ford and Versace), who agreed to represent Posen for free...
...Japanese straight perm can take up to eight hours in the salon and cost as much as $700. "Some straight perms are done with a hot iron and are very time consuming, and some are done with chemicals and are less time consuming," explains Karla Newgarden-Takahara, a stylist at the Manhattan salon Space. "For my clients, I usually recommend the milder one. It's a lot less time, and it's a lot less money." She doesn't recommend, however, that most women make their hair straight: "Most people don't look that great with no body...
...Lanchester is a skilled stylist, though, and he writes brilliantly of such things as Hong Kong's brutal occupation by the Japanese during World War II. Here his emotional distance serves him well. At the Stanley internment camp, Tom says, "morale was surprisingly high, not least because when it dropped, people tended to die." Understatement is perhaps the only appropriate response in the face of brutal suffering. His deadpan style is as clean and potent as a rifle shot...
...different. A biopsy confirmed that Ulene, the niece of former Today show medical expert Art Ulene, had ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, a growth that is variously described as either an early-stage breast cancer or a precancerous lesion. "It was very confusing," says Ulene, a color stylist for Walt Disney TV Animation. "I needed to know more...