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Apr. 06: Such a funny-sounding word, quirk. Perhaps the only major American designer to understand its potential is Marc Jacobs. Consider the evidence: his collections are more playful than the rest and his campaigns are notorious for showing odd people in odd places doing odd things. Now comes Juergen Teller Cindy Sherman Marc Jacobs, a book of collaborative photos that began with Jacobs' spring 2005 campaign but goes well beyond it.
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Mar. 06: New books for spring and summer, by or about: Guy Bourdin, Man Ray, toys, David LaChapelle, pimps, peeing in public, the best of V magazine, celebrity dogs, artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Fashion Now and Woody Guthrie.
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Jan. 06: Pitti Immagine Uomo—the men's fashion fair held biannually in Florence—was especially white-hot this season, thanks to Martin Margiela, who created a snow-white fair-within-a-fair to showcase his fall '06 men's collection. Meanwhile, the trade show's other marquee name, Rick Owens, installed a wax statue of himself urinating across an exhibition space, apparently putting the pee in Pitti.
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Dec. 05: What is it about Polaroids that makes them so enduringly endearing? How do those white-bordered, air-dried little squares endow the fuzzy faces inside with such glammy glow? Is it the intimacy, the immediacy, the DIY vibe? Any way you blow on it, Ezra Petronio taps into the magic with Bold & Beautiful, a new book of Polaroid portraits of the creatives who've entered the sphere of his Self Service magazine.
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Nov. 05: Who says formality has to be dull? Certainly not us. Which is why, for another one of our fun slideshows featuring the private side of the style set, we asked designers, photographers, editors and the like to send us photos of themselves that fit a formal theme. So sit back, loosen your black tie, toss the corsage and enjoy the show.
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Oct. 05: Continuing in the theme of his last book of candid black-and-white photographs, Stage, Hedi Slimane has once again put down his Dior Homme sketch pad and picked up the camera to document the still-nascent UK rock renaissance for his new art book. London: Birth of a Cult will hit stores later this month and, we're told, won't be reprinted, making it an instant, limited-edition classic.
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Aug. 05: New books for fall — Helmut Newton: A Gun for Hire, Casa Susanna, Cosmic Wonder, Visionaire 46, installationview: Ryan McGinness, The Snippy World of New Yorker Fashion Artist, WK Interact, Rare Birds, VB 53: Vanessa Beecroft, Sample, A.L.T. 365+, Diana Scheunemann.
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Jul. 05: Though gearing up for his new high-profile role of creative director at Jil Sander, Raf Simons is famously press-shy, preferring to communicate with the public through his men's collections and their associated images of adolescent detachment. But it would be a mistake to label him a monger of teen angst. There is a lighter, optimistic side to Simons that lies at the heart of his work, witnessed at Pitti Uomo in Florence.
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May 05: It requires no small mnemonic feat to remember the hidden locations of Comme des Garçons stores and a love of adventure to navigate their challenging layouts. But as anyone who's ever set out in search of conceptual fashion knows, the retail reward is in the journey. Here, CDG designer and mistress of illusion Rei Kawakubo talks shop with Hint.
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If Rad Hourani were writing this blurb, it would be over already. That's because, for the soon-to-explode French-Canadian designer, it's all about extreme minimalism. Thus, the concept behind this one-size-fits-all, unisex, sleeveless T-shirt—printed with the dates and times of a calendar—is that it can be worn by anyone, anytime. 
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After more plot twists than a Danielle Steele novel, Prada has finally unveiled its San Francisco flagship. The long-awaited store has been in the works since the late 90s, when a Silicon army of twenty-somethings turned to the house as their outfitter of choice. Also this month: Alexander McQueen, A.P.C. 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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