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...every designer is budging. Donna Karan, Anna Sui, Todd Oldham and Betsey Johnson say they will use only fake fur--although some will use shearling. Nor is PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) backing down. Its latest salvo is a video narrated by Chloe designer Stella McCartney (daughter of Paul and Linda) that contains grisly footage of a fox farm in Illinois. And even the most hardened fashion followers are mortified that some designers are using seal fur. The farmers are fighting back, and the Fur Commission of America launched an informative, if slightly defensive, website in July...
...there was no such thing as a Goldwaterite. There was only Goldwater, sui generis. When the conservative movement coalesced around his candidacy, in the early '60s, conservatives still called themselves individualists, and he understood better than they did that a movement of individualists was an oxymoron. He remained an individualist, and the movement passed him by. In his last years his libertarianism hardened. He came out for gay rights, including in the military, and opposed controls on abortion. When Republicans attacked President Clinton about Whitewater, Goldwater told them to "get off his back and let him govern...
...Anna Sui showed a horse outfit. And it will look good...
...Cinderella stories don't date any more than Jane Austen stories do. And the new acting team isn't half bad. Ford's muttering misanthropy may actually be funnier than Bogart's harder, more sardonic take on Linus. Ormond is no Audrey Hepburn, but Hepburn was sui generis, and Ormond does have a shy charm all her own. And there is a wastrely weakness about Kinnear's good looks that suits David more neatly than Holden's square-cut handsomeness...
...deservedly transformed the way we view, and wear, clothing. Many designers become editors' darlings simply because quality will win out and because anointing new talent is an important part of a fashion magazine's job. Vogue, for example, championed the work of designer John Galliano. Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui and Todd Oldham are among the current crop whose work would be celebrated even if they bought...