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Good Reads Ernest Hemingway Interview Fashion Copious There is just enough space left on top of the bookcase for a typewriter, surmounted by a wooden reading board, five or six pencils, and a chunk of copper ore to weight down papers when the wind blows in from the east window.

Good Reads Panos Yiapanis Interview Fashion CopiousInterview To add to his accomplishments, last week, Katie Grand tapped him to become Love's fashion director-at-large. Here, Yiapanis talks to Style.com about the new gig, the state of fashion, and staying true to his look. Why did now feel like the right time to join a magazine? I feel...

Good Reads Juergen Teller Interview Fashion Copious A good friend of mine in Italy kept saying I should go to Turin and see Mollino's place, he knows the museum's director so he said there would be no problem , he would let me do whatever I wanted there. Totally simultaneously, 032c asked me about Mollino, and Zoe Bedeaux, the stylist,...

Good Reads Perfectionism as Practice Fashion CopiousNovember 25,2011 When we declare something to be "good enough," we are declaring that we have reached the limits of our comfort zone. A "good enough" outcome, in this respect, is a snapshot of our current ability level. Pushing something beyond this point crosses a threshold into an...

Good Reads Heidemarie Jiline Sander Fashion Copious "You know, I don't think that is a good question," she says firmly. "You can believe I am also asking myself that." But, she continues, exhaling somewhat, "Creative people always like to create. This brings happiness. So there was no question about returning. The good thing about age is that...

Good Reads The New Belstaff Fashion CopiousAugust 31,2012 Designer Last year, the Swiss conglomerate Labelux—together with Tommy Hilfiger and entrepreneur Harry Slatkin—took over the label and will soon open stores in New York and London. They're also launching new high-end collections of women's wear, men's wear, and...

Excellent Read 'ed ex' Designers Fashion Copious For lack of a better term, I call them editorial experience (or 'ed-ex') designers. A few of them include Marcos Weskamp from Flipboard, Oliver Reichenstein from iA, Ian Adelman from NYTimes.com, and the now-independent Mark Porter, formerly of The Guardian. There are more names than just...

Good Reads The Paris Review Fashion Copious And I want it to maintain its integrity of, especially, it seems like choosing the writers—I want it to reflect what we really think is important, not just what's fashionable or what sells, but the writers who really interest us as writers. And I think that there's more work for a literary...

Good Reads It Just Works Fashion Copious You can read about it here.

Good Reads Age Defying Models Fashion Copious Her flowing gray hair and "discovery" by top fashion photographer Steven Meisel led to a contract with New York's prestigious Ford Models...

Good Reads We've Learned Fashion Copious Whether the task at hand is fixing computers, teaching workshops, organizing inventory, designing iconic structures, inventing proprietary technology, negotiating deals, sweating the details of signage, or doing countless other things, we've learned to hire the best in every discipline. We...

Good Reads Long form Writing Fashion Copious The good news for writers is that this dovetails with their financial and intellectual interests.

Good Reads Dasha On Russia Fashion Copious Stalwarts sniff at the commingling of museums and curators with fashion labels and luxury titans, but for Zhukova that discussion is as passé as a Soviet propaganda poster. "It's a path of evolution," she says simply. "I don't think it's a good thing or a bad thing." The projects that...

Good Reads The Gucci Loafer Fashion Copious This hand staining involves several stain and dry repetitions which eventually result in a beautifully tonal rich leather coloring. It was the workers who stained the shoes who most impressed me, wielding a steady hand and paint brush with an ease that is only born from years and years of...

Good Reads Follow me, garçon Fashion Copious"They still do, but you are more aware than ever that many designers (a) don't design with a specific woman in mind; and (b) don't design clothes from a 360-degree perspective. As a result, their clothes look flat. They should have a sign that warns: "Don't follow too close." On the Runway:...

Good Reads The Ageless Supermodels Fashion CopiousModels / Opinion Longevity is not a word often associated with fashion models. These days most of them are the living breathing equivalent of the seasonal "it bag". Walking the catwalk and grabbing the big ticket advertizing contracts for a season, ok maybe two seasons, and then they fad...

Fashion Face-Off 2010: Lady Gaga vs. Katy Perry vs. Kesha – Wall Street Journal (blog)You are here: Home / Fashion / Fashion Face-Off 2010: Lady Gaga vs. Katy Perry vs. Kesha – Wall Street Journal (blog) Fashion Face-Off 2010: Lady Gaga vs. Katy Perry vs. Kesha – Wall Street Journal (blog) December 31, 2010 By vip admin Leave a Comment Fashion Face-Off 2010: Lady Gaga vs....

Good Reads Lunch With Carine Fashion Copious As Roitfeld is telling me about the change to working on the retail side of the fashion business – "I have to fight with them a bit" – our food arrives: her herrings, served with curly lettuce, two green bean side salads and my smoked salmon. Melted butter is spooned from a silver bowl and...

★ Good Reads BryanBoy Pre Fame Fashion Copiousschool educated 20-something still living with his parents in a home friends describe as "pretty modest," in a country where the per-capita GDP was just $4,100 in 2011, and where 33 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, was able to acquire the Dior handbags and Dolce &...

Good Reads Long form Journalism Fashion Copious I know we've all read lots of long and stupid things. And I've read plenty of smart and short things. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00e54ef96453883401538ee48cd0970b Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Good Reads | Long-form Journalism:

Good Reads Vodka & America Fashion Copious "He was the first person to see," says an executive at rival Bacardi, "that there was a super-premium category above Absolut, if you had a good product story." And it was quite a story. As Frank explained to Inc. magazine, "I said, France has the best of everything. I asked the distiller...

Good Reads How to Paint Fashion CopiousI've recently been avoiding reading articles, and hence sharing them with you, so that I may catch up on some books i've been neglecting reading. And so the Good Reads section has been running dry. So be it; I think this is right. The book i'm currently reading is Cezanne: A Life by Alex...

★ Good Reads Filmmakers Over Photographers Fashion CopiousInterview / Film Very good interview with Diane Pernet, on the state, approach, and importance of fashion films. DIANE PERNET: I noticed this last season the weight the BFC has been placing on the importance of embracing film, what do you think is the reason behind such a focus? Diane...

Good Reads A Geriatric Starlet Fashion Copious If she seems surprised, she has good reason. Mrs. Apfel, the subject of a string of museum exhibitions, a coffee table book and even a fashion advertising campaign, has long been a magnet to aficionados, those devotees of fashion who dote on her style — a more-is-more mix of haute couture and...

★ Good Reads Forward Thinking Siri Fashion CopiousNovember 13,2012 Tech Very good analysis of Apple's Siri and its (her?) possibilities. If you read between the lines and view this article in a conceptual way it can even benefit those in publishing and commerce. It's forward thinking in that way. Siri is a promise. A promise of a new...

Good Reads The Impractical Cheeseburger Fashion Copious Some good stuff in the comment section as well. Personally i've been preferring lamb burgers as of late. Spicy when possible. But it's become very common to find them in NYC reasturants.

Good Reads Business Comes First Fashion Copious the reality of the fashion system—not as it's enacted on the street but at the highest level of fashion where all this designer/house stuff is happening—is business comes first. Every creative economy has its oddities, no doubt, and this is couture and ready-to-wear's: success for the high...

Good Reads Iris van Herpen Fashion CopiousOctober 4,2011 Interview / Designers What inspires you, and what motivates your work? "For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related to me and to my body. I see it as my expression of identity combined with desire, moods and cultural setting. In all my work I try to...

Good Reads Magazines Start Selling Fashion CopiousBusiness Fashion magazines are suddenly getting into the retailing business. While the glossies have long had a reputation for accommodating the designers they cover, sometimes guaranteeing coverage to those who advertise in their pages, a wave of new ventures and partnerships suggests they...

Good Reads Responsive Web Design Fashion Copious But over the past year, engineers have begun to adopt responsive web design, which includes fluid widths, scalable images and adjustable layouts that remain consistent across all platforms, whether you're accessing the site on a mobile phone, tablet, desktop computer or...