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    Image of shanASS shanASS
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Didn't plaid come from Scottish clans? How can anyone copyright something that was created centuries ago? #aliciakeys
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    11/10/09

    @shanASS: There are lots and lots of tartan patterns, most of them invented recently or just a couple of centuries ago.
    Lots of Scottish national symbols are pretty manufactured (I say that as a half Scot). #aliciakeys
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    Image of shanASS shanASS
    11/10/09

    @bowleserised: Good to know! #aliciakeys
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Ian Falconer? Like the guy who wrote "Olivia"? #aliciakeys
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    Image of MijaMia MijaMia
    11/10/09

    @LucilleMcGillicuddy: So random- my coworker knows Ian and was just in my cubicle telling me about how she has a first edition "Olivia." He is also the subject of many David Hockney works. #aliciakeys
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    11/10/09

    @MijaMia: well, he writes great books. #aliciakeys
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Oh my fucking G! I saw a Rodarte for Target dress in Glamour and it was RIDICULOUS! I don't know if they will make them large enough to fit my fat ass but I am tempted just to buy it in order to fondle it in my closet from time to time. #aliciakeys
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Tom Ford and my former best-friend in college are apparently two petits pois in a pod.

    She too was a raging francofile before she embarked on a junior-year study-abroad adventure in France. But her experience in the olde country traumatized her to no end. She loathed how narrow the roads were, how cramped the apartments were, she hated that French people smoked everywhere, she hated how university courses were held in huge halls with amphitheater seating, she hated, hated, hated everything with incandescent fury. One of her major peeves, as I recall, was that people wouldn't obsessively brush their teeth after a meal. I believe she had a nervous breakdown once when she went on a dinner date with a French boy who ate garickly snails, smoked a cigarette and then attempted to kiss her.

    A bit of-thread, I guess, but maybe somewhat educational to francofiles who expect La Patrie to be this endless field of lavender blossoms where attractive people bounce around and frolic with unicorns. #aliciakeys
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    11/10/09

    @snugbug: Please, not again that old cliche that French people don't bathe and brush their teeth! #aliciakeys
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    11/10/09

    @BlondeGoddess: I was merely recounting a tale of An American in Paris, as it was passed down to me. In my personal experience on the terrain, many of these things are true, but not bothersome. Au contraire, they're charming to me and just part of what makes France France and the French French. Though I'm European-born to begin with and would never imagine that living in France resembles a chapter from "A Movable Feast."

    I guess I was trying to illustrate by way of anecdote that many Americans often have this fantasy mental landscape of France beforehand, and then get disillusioned when the reality doesn't match it. I obviously failed.
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    Image of BlondeGoddess BlondeGoddess
    11/10/09

    @snugbug: No worries, I got it it was your friend with the misconceptions, not you! #aliciakeys
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    Image of Penny Penny
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Luella is closing.

    NOOOO!!!! #aliciakeys
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    Image of bluetrain84 bluetrain84
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Does Forever 21 sell anything that's NOT a knock-off? Besides like bobby pins? #aliciakeys
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Tom Ford shaving off his eyebrows in a mescaline-induced fit is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. It's heartening to know that even fashion icons can succumb to hallucinogen and their magical power of persuasion. Now excuse me while I go back to laughing uncontrollably at that image. #gettypic
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    Image of RenoMartini RenoMartini
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Instead of saying, "that's the pot calling the kettle black" I'm going to say, "That's like Express calling Forever 21 unoriginal." #gettypic
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/10/09

    @RenoMartini: Major LOL! I remember when Trovata sued Forever 21 for knocking off their duds--a total laugh riot, because Trovata was (still is? I believe those four foxy surfer boys called it quits a while back) a knock-off label par excellence. #gettypic
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    Image of legs benedict legs benedict
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    I want that Rodarte skeleton dress so intensely. Gah. #gettypic
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    Image of SlayBelle SlayBelle
    11/10/09

    @legs benedict: You and me both, sister. What's the chance of the sizing being appropriate for adult women?

    Trick question! There's no chance at all. #gettypic
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    Image of legs benedict legs benedict
    11/10/09

    @SlayBelle: My boobs never fit into sheath dresses. Sighh. #aliciakeys
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    Image of SlayBelle SlayBelle
    11/10/09

    @legs benedict: Mine either. Maybe I'll buy the dress and hang it on the wall to sigh at wistfully.

    Not that I've ever done that before. Or anything. #aliciakeys
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    Image of linnyt is a walking cliché linnyt is a walking cliché
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    Diane Von Furstenberg dropped a few dresses off with Ikram Goldman during a recent trip to Chicago. We all know what that means!
    Can someone please elaborate, because we don't all know what that means. She's getting them dry cleaned?
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/10/09

    @linnyt is a walking cliché: That DVF is angling for Michelle Obama to wear her dresses. Ikram is apparently Ms. O's favorite boutique.. #gettypic
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    Image of Sev Sev
    11/10/09

    @snugbug: Ah! thank you! I read that and thought "I don't know what that means" and felt all left out and sad.

    Great, now I need bread. #gettypic
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    11/10/09

    @Sev: I'm sorry! I should remember that not everyone exists in a world of wall-to-wall fashion coverage, 83% of which is to do with Michelle Obama, the designers she is wearing, and Ikram Goldman. #aliciakeys
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    Image of wtfox?! wtfox?!
    11/10/09

    In reply to Alicia's Kooky Jewels; Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"
    After this latest round of lawsuits, anyone who wants to outfit themselves in all Forever 21 will find themselves scantily plaid. #gettypic
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    Image of Jenna Jenna
    11/10/09

    @wtfox?!: I LOL'd. And I don't just mean I, like, "LOL"-LOL'd. I actually laughed, right here at my desk. #aliciakeys
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    11/10/09

    @Jenna: This totally made my day! Woo hoo! #aliciakeys
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    11/03/09

    In reply to The Problem With Fashion's Obsession With Death
    Wow, photo #2. The Virgin Suicides called, it wants its concept back. #deadmodels
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    Image of miss.terious miss.terious
    11/03/09

    In reply to The Problem With Fashion's Obsession With Death
    so, photography is a new art medium, but artists have been in LOVE with depictions of death since cavemen drew on walls. renaissance art is chock full of it - and it's shocking, stunning, arresting. women look like they have no agency, but they make beautiful (submission, dainty, obedient, pure, religious) corpses. talking about art using death to create heightened emotion is absolutely *nothing* new... the *kind* of death the slideshow demonstrates here is a whole nother question. are we uncomfortable with death in art period, or just violent crime death? #deadmodels
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    jenrobe promoted this comment miss.terious was starred miss.terious was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @miss.terious: I think we're uncomfortable with death being used to flog us a dress or a pair of boots.

    Fashion photography is not art, not in the strictest sense, because it has a commericial endevour beyond trying to sell you the image itself - it's trying to get you to pony up your hard earned cash for an item.

    I don't care about depictions of death in art; I care when the violent murder of a woman is seen as a good way to get me to buy a new pair of jeans. #deadmodels
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    Image of FADviral FADviral
    11/03/09

    @jenrobe: Since when did works of art begin losing artistic value due to their intrinsic commercial motivations?

    The frescos of the Sistine Chapel were only commissioned to attract more visitors and feed the Pope's sense of grandeur. Even Michelangelo resented his work there, but hey, he needed the money.

    Not art in its strictest sense then? #deadmodels
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    jenrobe promoted this comment FADviral was starred FADviral was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @FADviral: I think that could well be a good argument, that the Sistine Chapel was a commercial work, although it had a religious context and was created arguably by someone who believed in that faith.

    However, Michelangelo was pissed about the commission because he was already working on sculptures for the Pope's tomb, not because he hated the church. And then he demanded to be able to do the work the way his vision told him to, not according to what the Church initially invisaged.

    I didn't mean to suggest they lost their "artistic" value, but that there is clearly a divide between a work being created for its own self (art for art's sake) and to sell stuff. #deadmodels
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    Image of RisaPlata RisaPlata
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Problem With Fashion's Obsession With Death
    All those boots really make me want to be dead! No, wait...

    All that death really makes me want boots! No, wait... #deadmodels
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    Image of abagatelle abagatelle
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Problem With Fashion's Obsession With Death
    #1 is kind of funny, death by roller skating around a mansion is ridiculous enough to not be gruesome. Just about everything else made me squirm though. #deadmodels
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    Snowbunny promoted this comment abagatelle was starred abagatelle was unstarred
    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    11/02/09

    @abagatelle: I thought it was the staircase at the Vatican at first, which made it even more funny. #deadmodels
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