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Calvin herself dons the vintage 501s, often for a year straight to inspire a new finish. She doesn't wash the jeans, only dry-cleans them, so that the wear and tear is natural. She restitches them when they're broken in, and replicates the look as a new style for the masses. "You want to make it look like you found them in a flea market and they've been on your body for 20 years," she says. --By Nadia Mustafa
...Once people wear our T shirts, they get that emotion and that feeling and comfort," she adds. "Cheyann and I strongly believe that it's not a trend. It's a staple piece of society's wardrobe that was missing. You've got Converse, Dockers, Levi's. There wasn't really a classic T shirt." --By Christine Shea
...Iman introduced a second line for women of all skin tones. I-IMAN Makeup, sold by the upscale retailer Sephora, has a more daring palette. "I started this line after watching urban girls who don't follow any rules, girls who wear glitter during the day and a nude face at night...
Both lines include hair and skin-care products. "I would never create cosmetics without skin care," Iman says. "I find that in Western societies girls wear makeup way too young and worry about their skin way too late. I grew up with the opposite mentality." --By Nadia Mustafa
When Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo arrived in Paris in 1981 to show her Comme des Garcons ready-to-wear collection to the Western press for the first time, critics branded her mannish coats, inky palette and distressed fabrics "post-atomic" and "Hiroshima chic." They dismissed her unfinished seams and asymmetrical cuts as absurd...