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LONG before history would log her as the wife of one of the most
influential
U.S. presidents and him as one of this country’s few true
couturiers, she was just an actress under contract with a studio, and
he was just a fledgling dressmaker settling into his own atelier.
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A beauty season already indelibly defined by a strong eye is being
underscored to more dramatic effect thanks to a couple of queens –
as in Brit designer Alexander McQueen and the muse for his fall
collection, Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra.
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The lost-and-found caper of the crystal sheath – a dress valued
at $150,000 and promised to the Smithsonian Institution – could’ve
spelled disaster for any upstart diva.
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IF the Z-Boys didn’t party too late or too hard the night before,
Tony Alva would be up with the first hint of sunlight in his Venice
beach studio in 1977, “networking” by phone for the best spots to surf.
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ONE hundred George Washingtons hardly go far these days.
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FOR a man who claims, “Stores only interest me when I’m shopping,”
Karl Lagerfeld’s new Chanel flagship in Beverly Hills is a
high-concept, high-art contradiction.
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LONG before Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Garner brought their
daughters here for a lazy afternoon, before Tom Hanks popped in for
dessert or Michelle Pfeiffer swooped in for a Saturday morning shop,
the quirky collection of nine red barns known as the Brentwood
Country Mart was a fave hang among Hollywood A-listers living in the
surrounding ‘hood.
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“HALSTON made this for Ali McGraw for the premiere of ‘Love
Story,’ and she gave it to me a very long time ago.
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By all the hype over “The 11th Hour” – the latest Earth-in-crisis
documentary that opened in Los Angeles and New York today, and
nationwide Aug.
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THREE years before ruling as queen of the galaxy, Jane Fonda sat in a
room at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas with Roger Vadim, the French
director who would seal her sexpot status in “Barbarella.”
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