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• January Jones' reward for holding up the spring Versace show by over an hour is apparently...the brand's spring campaign. Says Donatella Versace, "In January I feel I have found a perfect Versace woman for the 21st century." [WWD]

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You asked, we answered! If you're getting a sugar crash from trashy-reading but still want to spend the remaining summer months with a completely absorbing book, you're in luck: We've assembled 10 of our all-time favorite respectable page-turners! More »
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What, you thought Lolita and Norman Bates came out of thin air? More »
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In 2007 John Bertram issued a challenge: design a cover for Nabokov's Lolita. The results run the gamut from horribly creepy to uncannily pretty. Check out the full library (and compare representations of pedophilia) here: [Flickr via BlackBook] More »
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"To be blunt, I do not love Lolita in spite of my own history; I love it, in part, because of my history." That history is fascinating, and can (and should) be read here: [The Second Pass] More »
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MG Durham writes in today's Guardian that the sexualization of young girls (cf. Miley Cyrus, Emma Watson, etc., etc.) is deeply damaging for them. But western culture's Lolita fetish sucks for the legal as well as the barely. More »
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Fellow nerds! Check out this discussion with Vladimir Nabokov, shortly after Lolita's American publication. He's combative, has a heavy Russian accent, and at one point they all tacitly stand up and move to this "drawing room" set. [YouTube via BoingBoing] More »
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Of Nabokov's Russian version of Lolita, the New Republic, in 1968, noted: "Lolita herself...is one-and-one-half inches shorter in Russian." [The New Republic] More »
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Pour yourself a gin and pineapple — Humbert Humbert's favorite tipple — Lolita's 50. Which probably makes her more like 68, strictly speaking. Anyway, Nabokov's masterpiece has endured a half-century of controversy, banning,misinterpretation, cultural cooption, adaptation and dissection, and remains at the top of the canon, multilayered and artful. While "Lolita" has entered the lexicon as shorthand for a seductive nymphet, David Gates makes the point that "the book's title is an artful misdirection: it points not at its putative heroine, but at her representation in the narrator's mind. And while Humbert Humbert works hard to beguile his readers, he never seduced his creator; in one interview Nabokov called him "a vain and cruel wretch who manages to appear 'touching'." [Newsweek] More »
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There's a new interview on Nerve with Graham Vickers, the author of Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again, in which the author explores the way the icon has entered the culture — and how thoroughly that perception distorts Nabokov's actual novel. Nowadays, a Lolita is any underage temptress — "from Amy Fisher to Hard Candy" — whereas the character is very much a creation of adult male fantasy. Weirdly, as our culture's obsession with pedophilia grows, the character of Lolita has become more of a vixen and less of a victim. More »
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A 34-year-old Italian butcher who was having an affair with 13-year-old girl had his sentence reduced by two-thirds because a judge decided there was "real love" involved. Antonio de Pascale was given a sentence of a year and four months instead of the maximum possible penalty — 12 years — because, according to the Telegraph, the girl had consented to every action and there was "deep tenderness" between the two. Simonetta Matone, a Roman judge (who did not preside over this case) said, "Every relationship is a relationship and the real maturity, whether physical or psychological, of the minor must be weighed, with the help of experts." Roman Polanski totally wishes he was from Italy now. [Telegraph] More »
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Woolworths in the UK has stopped selling a "Lolita" bedroom set for young girls after a group of mothers began a campaign in protest of it. But don't blame Woolworths! They supposedly had never even heard of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name. "The staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest, no one else here had either,'' a store spokesman said. "We had to look it up on Wikipedia." [The Times of London] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351528&view=rss&microfeed=true Miu Miu is supposed to be Prada-lite, Prada for the poor folk. In reality, it costs about the same as its big-sister label, but its design aesthetic? Decidedly different. While Prada is known for being anti-sexy and "intellectual" (because, uh, brains and beauty are mutually exclusive?), Miu Miu is a little more, well, slutty. But in a fun and playful way! This season's collection has a Lolita-like sensibility, with no-way-in-hell-can-you-sit-in-that short skirts and teeny tiny little bloomers underneath poofy, tiny confections. Little girl sizes on womanly bodies with red red lipstick? Humbert Humbert: Prepare yourself. Gallery begins below. (All images via AP) More »
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