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Rochas Is Back

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2008-10-07 14:04:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...fashion brand Rochas two years ago, the company thought it was buying only the perfume division. When P&G discovered that it had also inherited the brand's ultra-expensive clothing line, then designed by Olivier Theyskens , it unceremoniously dumped the line--Theyskens' work received critical accolades but not a lot of money--and left...
 
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To Buy Or Not To Buy?

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2008-10-01 21:15:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...fashion and beauty, but more and more they seem to be teaching us how to be voyeurs rather than participants," she writes. "They make interesting clothes that are essentially for photographs--for magazines, the red carpet or MySpace pages. You can go into a dressing room, take a picture of yourself in a new Prada and download it for your...
 
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What's Wrong With London (Fashion Week)?

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2008-09-29 19:38:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...Fashion Week now, what with the U.S. economy on the brink of collapse and the presidential election almost a month away. (Also, London was oh so two weeks ago.) But, I did jot down some thoughts on London, which I attended vicariously through photos on Style.com, last night and, well, what can I say, the apocalypse could descend and I'd still...
 
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2008-09-08 22:40:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
 
...Fashion Week? Well, Cathy Horyn understands : The thing we like about Paris is that despite the volume of shows, everyone seems to be working toward a shared purposeto show great contemporary fashion, innovative cuts, etc. Thats the message. Its pretty straight-forward. But in New York, the runway has become the medium and not the message....
 
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Fall-Fashion Deluge: Sick of Lace

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2008-09-07 20:41:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...fashion people tend to call "editorial"--pieces that photograph well and look great in the pages of magazines. For fall, these were Balenciaga's severe, femme fatale take on the little black dress and Prada's lace dresses, blouses and skirts. Balenciaga and Prada were two of my favorite shows of the season, and I really liked the LBD and the...
 
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Two Vogues Offend, This Time

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2008-09-06 12:39:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...fashion publication being socially insensitive is perhaps unsurprising, but we tend to think that the cosmopolitan, urbane folks who put out these little glossies would, in today's society, at least know better I don't know if Vogue is merely oblivious to the cultural and social histories (implicitly/subconsciously?) informing its editorials...
 
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Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal

2008-08-27 21:41:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
 
Anna Wintour is agog over Federer ; Harriet Mays Powell seems to prefer Nadal . What is it about these tennis players that makes fashion editors so besotted
 
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Fall-Fashion Deluge: The New Yorker

2008-08-27 20:39:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
 
I think The New Yorker is the only magazine that would actually take the time to define the saying "Bros Before Hos" in an article (Ariel Levy's Marc Jacobs' profile, specifically; Jacobs has the cliché tattooed on his arm
 
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Fall-Fashion Deluge Part One: New York Magazine

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2008-08-22 08:34:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...fashion deluge begins; photo by Rodney Smith for New York It's fall fashion season--at least for the magazines. (In New York, it's still 80 degrees and the thought of wearing a cardigan seems too much to bear.) Still, all the glossies are hawking the latest designer wide-legged pegged wool pants (YSL) and sculpted leather jackets (Rick...
 
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Why I Bought Italian Vogue's Black Issue: Belated Thoughts

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2008-08-16 13:49:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...fashion magazines. Whether this Black Issue is merely a salvo to assuage/hush up critics or an actual call for change is debatable--but, I think, beside the point The point: that people bought it. Actually, that's an understatement; fashionistas were gobbling up this Black Issue so quickly that Italian Vogue had to do a reprint--a reprint!!...
 
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