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DIED. NANCY WHITE, 85, elegant, eminently proper editor of Harper's Bazaar during the 1960s, known throughout three marriages as Miss White; in New York City. Not nearly as ubiquitous as her primary rival, Vogue's Diana Vreeland, White kept apace with the tumultuous decade, infusing the magazine with photographs by Avedon and Hiro and featuring models in bikinis, luminous body stockings and space suits...
...trademark oversize glasses and a dog, Magic--in recent TV ads for Old Navy; of pulmonary illness; in New York City. An early advocate of Donna Karan and an editor for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the New York Times, Donovan appreciated highbrow and lowbrow fashion. Her mentor Diana Vreeland once told her, "My dear, you've got the common touch...
Leaping the Atlantic in the '70s, Doonan ventured into the continent that was to prove his postmodern paradise. There was a stint doing the storefronts of avant-garde Maxfield in L.A. and a collaboration with the legendary Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute of the Met. Then in 1986, his notoriety well-established, Doonan was snatched by Barney's New York, where he has graduated from window dresser to creative director. His justification for being is in creating windows which inhabit the realm somewhere "beyond the valley of gorgeousity...
...disbelief. "Not in a town where people tip cows for fun." Franklin was a place where the local cultural establishment was the Mineral Museum, where the arrows for fun (ski resorts, zoo, theme park) point out of town. Now Franklin is the town where Thomas Koskovich, 18, and Jayson Vreeland, 17, allegedly spent part of Saturday night calling area pizzerias for two plain cheese pies, finally enticing two deliverymen to an abandoned house on Scott Road...
There has always been an intimacy between powerful editors and their favorite powerful designers: legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland with Hubert de Givenchy and Halston, the quid with the quo. But the magazine recession of the early 1990s, which intensified the scramble for ad pages everywhere, made the cozy relationships even cozier. During that period, design companies amassed even more advertising clout. The economic pressure has eased lately-for instance, ad pages through May are up 16% for Elle and 9% for Glamour over last year. Still, the compromises remain...