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Apr 08: New books for spring—Harajuku girls gone wild, a Richard Avedon homage for the ages, bears of the hirsute human kind, an unexpectedly cheeky new magazine for Muslim women, a case for Pete Doherty's sanity, a salute to Savile Row, a new book shows Federico Fellini's genius started with his dreams, the cheapness of Cheap Date continues and more.
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Mar 08: "Paris 1962: Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior, the Early Collections" (Rizzoli, $75) is a study in contrasts more than the title suggests. Commissioned by Esquire to document the rival houses' shows that year, photographer Jerry Schatzberg turned his camera to the behind-the-scenes moments: backstage coughing fits, surreptitious yawns, dress-train fluffing, diffident in-between poses and other incidents of unguarded awkwardness. —Liz Armstrong
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Oct 07: Ever-cheeky Alber Elbaz takes a bold, eccentric and sometimes sexless approach to his collections for Lanvin. Such is the contrary concept behind one of today's great brand revivals and, oddly enough, the same premise on which couturière Jeanne Lanvin founded her namesake label almost a hundred years ago. In his exhaustively researched new book, Lanvin (Rizzoli, $85), Dean Merceron explains Madame's inventive, artful and, for its day, avant-garde vision.
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Apr 07: New books for spring—Mario Testino's star snaps, Jean Muir's legacy, Jean Paul Gaultier's 30th anniversary party, Vivienne Westwood's shoes, the art of Gilbert and George, David Bailey back in the day, Bob Colacello's paparazzi pics for Andy Warhol, the animal-inspired sculpture of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne and more.
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Mar 07: While Helmut Lang, the uber-private Austrian-American designer of austere, cipher-like, sometimes androgynous clothes, remains mum about his exact post-Prada plans, he seems to have heard the call of the art world, at least judging from the name of his new company, hl-art, and his Selective Memory Series.
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Dec 06: Bigger than ever, Butt turns five this year with the release of its first book, a 560-page anthology packed with many of the same probing interviews and smutty images that have made the suggestively pink-paged, self-styled "fag mag" from Amsterdam a cult phenomenon. Here, Butt's creators and longtime Hint buddies, Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom reflect on a half-decade of filth and fun.
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The diktats of the house of Balenciaga are, once again, reverberating across fashion. For spring, it's like a petal pandemic, with floral prints blooming all over the place. With the launch of an e-boutique, still more Balenciaga can be had, like this floral City bag, a web exclusive. Also this month: Miu Miu, Topshop, Issey Miyake and more... Message Boards
"Madonna starves herself on a raw macrobiotic kosher vegan kaballah diet and works out three hours a day to maintain the physique of a 12-year-old gymnast boy, and then has the cheeks of a 300-pound woman implanted into her face. And her forehead is like a plastic baby's bottom. It's like Nicole Kidman's forehead at the height of her botox addiction, and we all remember how unfortunate that era was." |
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