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	<title>Papierdoll &#187; Required Reading</title>
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		<title>Little Green Dresses Review</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2010/10/13/little-green-dresses-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meghan Hart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eco-Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Green Dresses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Taunton press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tina Sparkles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Little Green Dresses: 50 Original Patterns for Repurposed Dresses, Tops, Skirts and More,&#8221; Tina Sparkles&#8217; newest foray into all things redone is a do-it-yourself fashion book done right. Put together as if making a repurposed dress herself, the author weaves, folds and diagrams &#8220;Little Green Dresses&#8221; from a variety of parts with a myriad of authors. This in turn, gives a voice that&#8217;s not preachy, too-folksy or condescending as some other fashion self-help books have a habit of doing. Sparkles starts out throwing a variety of facts and figures regarding our shopping habits and general usage of clothing and fashion in America. Eventually she settles on the fact that we tend to be wasteful, tend not to support local designers and manufacturers; and we also do quite a bit of harm to the environment with our wayward fashion ways (read: buying and discarding of items). But Sparkles posits that we can change all of this if we try with a modicum of effort. She makes the eye-opening point that we can really change the world if we adopt some of the practices she outlines in the book. Truth be told, I started to believe her. She states as a conclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gilded Lili: Lili St Cyr and the Striptease Mystique</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2008/09/02/gilded-lili-lili-st-cyr-and-the-striptease-mystique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephanie-nolasco</dc:creator>
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		<title>Model, A Memoir</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2008/08/06/model-a-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/model0808box.jpg" align="left">It all became clear to me when a thirteen-year-old compatriot of mine pointed out that the publisher's imprint on the book was the same as all of the candy-colored paperback summer novels she'd been reading. Until that moment, I was reading...<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion At The Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2008/02/01/fashion-at-the-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/fedge0208box.jpg" alt="Fashion at the Edge" align="left" />In Fashion At The Edge, Caroline Evans looks at the experimental and the transgressive in fashion design, presentation, and photography in the 90s with a heavy dose of London. <br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Star Von Bunny &#8211; A Model Tale</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/12/03/star-von-bunny-a-model-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davina Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/12/03/star-von-bunny-a-model-tale/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/12/03/star-von-bunny-a-model-tale/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/starvon1207sm.jpg" align="left"></a>The life of an aspiring model is a difficult one to be sure. Having the right skin tone, being the right height, eating the right foods, knowing the right people. The endless list of "rights" that one has to be makes the modeling profession less a glamorous endeavor and more a "job".<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Parisiennes</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/10/18/parisiennes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/10/18/parisiennes/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/flesp1007.jpg" align="left"></a>Look past the cover of Parisiennes, A Celebration of French Women, a large format coffee table book fronted by a photo of a trio of three gorgeous women...<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: An Insider</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/07/24/the-fashion-designer-survival-guide-an-insider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/07/24/the-fashion-designer-survival-guide-an-insider/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/07/24/the-fashion-designer-survival-guide-an-insider/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/frequired0707.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a>If you could sell good ideas, many of us would be rich. It's getting the idea into object or working project that's the trick. And when it comes to making a fashion business out of your unique aesthetic...<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Paris Fashion, A Cultural History</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/06/20/paris-fashion-a-cultural-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/06/20/paris-fashion-a-cultural-history/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/06/20/paris-fashion-a-cultural-history/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/fparis0607.jpg" align="left"></a>Designers at many of fashion's most important houses may not be French, but the capital of the fashion world is still Paris. In spite of World War II, in spite of the rise of American...<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Disco Years</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/05/17/disco-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 02:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/05/17/disco-years/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/05/17/disco-years/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/fiman0507.jpg" align="left"></a>In these times when we're gleefully remixing our retros, leggings (oh, and oversized shirts) which you'll recall from the mid '80s, '60s a-line dresses<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Against Fashion</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/03/17/against-fashion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/03/17/against-fashion/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/03/17/against-fashion/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/fagainst0307.jpg" align="left"></a>Sometimes we are so absorbed in our circumscribed worlds, dealing with daily questions of what, and who and how, that we are hard-pressed to take a step back and ask some good why's.<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>The World In Vogue</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/02/10/the-world-in-vogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/02/10/the-world-in-vogue/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2007/02/10/the-world-in-vogue/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/fvogue0207.jpg" align="left"></a>It's not a new book. In fact, it's a giant tome that's more than forty years old. But it tells us how we contextualize style today (and style here includes fashion but is larger than that), tells us something about how we think and write about it.<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Today and other reading gifts</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/12/10/fashion-today-and-other-reading-gifts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/fftoday1206.jpg" align="left"></a>It  is rare in the world of fashion books to find a book that is equal  parts pretty pictures and smart writing. Leave it to Colin McDowell,  one of the more authoritative fashion writers at work today—and a man  who's efforts...<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Swift Kick</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/11/17/a-good-swift-kick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/11/17/a-good-swift-kick/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/fdvreeland1106.jpg" align="left"></a>Why Don't You? won't tell you which skirt shape looks best on a girl with hips as would a more practical guide to dressing. It won't point you to the bag of the season as the magazines will. <br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>Sewing the Seeds of A DIY Fashion Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/10/02/sewing-the-seeds-of-a-diy-fashion-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/?p=341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/10/02/sewing-the-seeds-of-a-diy-fashion-revolution/"><img src="http://www.papierdoll.net/featureimgs/sewbook1006th.jpg" align="left"> </a>Maybe you know just the trouser shape you are looking for but can't find it in shops. Maybe you've always imagined yourself in a dress from a photo shoot from the movie Blow-Up.
Be your own fashion designer? It's a notion that's not as crazy as you think, particularly<br clear="all">]]></description>
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		<title>The Beautiful Fall:  Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/09/05/ppdoll-446/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s ParisAuthor: Alicia Drake Buy This Book In this country [USA], decadence means trashy, pornographic, dirty. Cadent comes from the Latin cadere which means to fall. Decadent is something very different, it&#8217;s the beautiful way to fall. It&#8217;s [a] very slow movement which has lots of beauty, you know. It can be a kind of self-killing in a beautiful way, a tragic way. —Jacques de Bascher The ingredients are talent, ambition, ego, and something in the personality that makes others want to believe, to follow. Both Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent had what it takes to be fashion superstars, and both have scaled the heights. The story in Alicia Drake&#8217;s The Beautiful Fall is in the differences between the two. Saint Laurent who will be remembered as much for his innovations including styles like Le Smoking and strategies like the synthesis of street into haute couture, for his eponymous house, as his addictions and mental illness. Lagerfeld will be remembered as the intellectual, the erudite designer who stayed relentlessly relevant, reinventing and reinventing again at houses that did not bear his name, (early those of Jean Patou, Balmain,) later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emilio Pucci</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/08/01/ppdoll-439/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know it&#8217;s still summer. We fashion writers all have our heads in fall, but you&#8217;re still trying to dress minimally to beat the heat. You&#8217;re either going on an island (or beach) vacation or fantasizing about same. Resort as a season is becoming bigger and more important for many designers across the board. All of this brings us to the subject of Emilio Pucci, the man who virtually invented resort with easy clothes to be worn by the wealthy on holiday on the island of Capri. Silk jersey dresses, tunics, scarves and of course, &#8220;Capri&#8221; pants were all part of his wardrobe for the newly minted jet set. But what&#8217;s really interesting is how he developed his vocabulary of mad, bold geometric print and the lengths he went to push dye makers to develop ever more vivid colors. At the same time, he, like Coco Chanel before him, brought stretch materials used previously in athletic wear (in Chanel&#8217;s case it was jersey used previously for undergarments) to high fashion. And of course, like Chanel, he changed the way women dressed. His separates and dresses in signature Pucci prints and silhouettes placed an indelible stamp on an era (late 60s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dash of Daring. Carmel Snow And Her Life In Fashion, Art, and Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/07/05/ppdoll-419/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dash of Daring. Carmel Snow And Her Life In Fashion, Art, and LettersBy Penelope RowlandsBuy This Book It is now common, among the fashion cognescenti, to be highly aware of the editorial talent that shapes our experience of fashion. The editors of fashion’s heavy hitting magazines define trends as much as they report on them. And editors since the flamboyant Diana Vreeland (Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue) have become celebrities of a kind, as well-known as those who fill the magazine&#8217;s pages. This was not always the case. Edna Woolman Chase, longtime editor of Vogue, for one, is no more well-known today than she was in her time. This probably explains why A Dash of Daring is the first biography of editor-in-chief, Carmel Snow (1887–1961), who, with a team that included art director Alexey Brodovitch, photographer Richard Avedon, and Vreeland, from 1932 to 1957 engineered the metamorphosis of Harper’s Bazaar from a stodgy fashion book to a dynamic testament to modernity. It’s a shame that this biography was written by Penelope Rowlands, whose self-conscious intrusions into the text are major speed-bumps on the road to the story at hand. Rowlands continually makes comments and asides—contemporary commentary, ham-fisted foreshadowing, and stating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New English Dandy</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/06/01/ppdoll-412/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New English DandyAlice Cicolini buy this book Wade Crescent faces the camera, in all his rakishly disheveled glory, in a deep plum (it&#8217;s purple, really) three-piece suit with a six-button vest over a brown shirt with white polka dots. His unshaven face and too-long hair are a counterpoint to his otherwise peacock-like appearance making it read as the costume of a sensualist, the suit as self-expression rather than suit as the fussy and uptight boxing-in of the man. Alice Cicolini&#8217;s field guide to the well-dressed man in the UK, The New English Dandy, takes as its starting point the word that we associate with Beau Brummell-ism or early Oscar Wilde in his velvets, but her scope is far wider than whatever modern inheritors of that tradition might suggest. In fact, the range of the modern dandy stretches from patrons of the tailors of Saville Row (the epitome of high-style Englishmen&#8217;s tailoring) to deep-street in a deconstructed, neu-punk vein. Here are all manner and class of gentlemen, from the tattoo artist and the guy in the band, to the interior designer, the writer, the actor in silk ties of all sizes or none at all, Nehru collars, cardigans, clashing prints, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halston: An American Original</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/04/30/ppdoll-382/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 03:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halston: An American OriginalBy Elaine Gross &#38; Fred Rottman The way to understand our present, is to take a look at our past. And this is as true in fashion as in any other field. One name, one well-spring of inspiration for American fashion, Halston is the antecedent of a Zac Posen or a Proenza Schouler—handsome young designers and their starlet clients—as well as Tom Ford&#8217;s edgy glamour for Gucci (never mind Donna Karan or Norma Kamali). Halston was arguably one of America&#8217;s most influential designers. Halston: An American Original is all I&#8217;ve been talking about for weeks. Why? Halston&#8217;s uniquely sophisticated glamour is so very deceptively simple, so American, so easy. It&#8217;s not the least bit retro but absolutely of the moment. No need to go to Belgium for a reaction to the Victorian, the overwrought, the ruffled and the ruched, the answer is right here at home in the legacy of Roy Halston Frowick. It&#8217;s less Halston&#8217;s sequined chiffon caftan-esque numbers and more things like an angora/wool knit shirt—buttonless—that simply ties at the waist for closure or a spiral-cut one-shoulder tube dress that have captivated me. Tom Ford acknowledged a debt to Halston in designing for Gucci, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diane: A Signature Life by Diane von Furstenburg</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/04/03/ppdoll-374/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in her first fashion industry job as assistant to a photographers agent in Paris that Diane von Furstenberg, &#8220;began to understand the value of image and the flow of the fashion industry.&#8221; That&#8217;s the secret ingredient in the von Furstenberg story: image, the image she created and promoted of the cosmopolitan, jet setter with all the right friends who was her own best model, salesperson, and PR flack. Her face and her dramatic signature on her products were hallmarks of her brand. The reason we know von Furstenberg&#8217;s name at all is because of a clever invention of hers, the wrap dress. When she was trying to figure out a way to live and work in New York, she saw a gap in women&#8217;s apparel—between wacky, &#8220;hippie designer clothes&#8221; and drip-dry polyester, and filled it with simple dresses. At first they were cotton knit prints and silk tent dresses. But it was her wrap that became ubiquitous. &#8220;The first wrap dress arrived in 1973 in a wood-grain print. The dress was nothing, really—just a few yards of fabric with two sleeves and a wide wrap sash. But the V-neck wrap design fir a woman&#8217;s body like no other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Chic Chick</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/03/01/ppdoll-358/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you package your mother&#8217;s Amy Vanderbilt or Emily Post for the modern woman? Try mixing in a little Suze Orman, Louise Hay and Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, trim their insights down into bite-sized bits for the blog reading generation. And then, package them irresistibly as a set of smooth coated, round-cornered tarot-esque cards in a boxed set of three black matte boxes (nested in a larger black matte box) labeled Elegance, Intelligence and Strength. The boxed book functions as an elongated definition of author Rachael Marcus&#8217; &#8220;Chic Chick.&#8221; Inscribed on the front of each card, &#8220;Le Chic Chick Knows&#8230;&#8221; everything from the first thing about stocks and architecture to the anatomy of an orchestra. The cards are graphically snappy and feel good in your hand. There&#8217;s the Elegance Deck of 50 lifestyle cards cutting a broad swath through better living from pearls, posture and promptness to pairing wine with poultry. Here, chic requires always looking one&#8217;s best (but of course) as well as knowing how far a tablecloth should hang over the side of the table (six inches). And it is this breadth of chic, from the mundanities to etiquette esoterica that makes the decks good fun rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julie K. L. Dam Some Like it Haute</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/02/01/ppdoll-338/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie K. L. DamSome Like it HauteWarner Books Interview by Lisa Radon This, then, is a diary of a mad, clad-in-black woman — a fashion writer at a newsmagazine, a magna cum laude in Manolos. To misquote Descartes: I shop, therefore I am.&#8221; – Alex on the Some Like It Haute (somelikeithaute.com) weblog As accident-prone as she is shoe-obsessed, fashion journalist Alex is sent to Paris to cover women&#8217;s ready-to-wear shows where she does everything but in Julie Dam&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Some Like It Haute.&#8221; Alex bumps into her high school French teacher, meets the man of her dreams, gets the scoop on the designer story of her career and takes her Texas momma to her first couture appointment. Along the way she gets her 15 minutes of fame (of the worst possible kind) by blundering onto a runway and flattening a supermodel, floods her hotel bathroom, charges an entire Prada wardrobe to her expense account and discovers her crush is (uh-oh) on a reality t.v. show on which he&#8217;s charged with deceiving a mansionful of models into thinking he&#8217;s royalty and gaining weight to win his hand. Lucky for us, Alex is smarter, more self-aware and 37% less annoyingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.L.T. 365+</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2006/01/02/ppdoll-312/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do I love André Leon Talley? Let me count the ways. Is it because he is the only fashion writer today capable of drawing parallels between coming-on-strong Parisian designers Rick Owens and Olivier Theyskens and early 20th Century avant-guard poets?]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading: eat. shop. and be merry.</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2005/12/18/ppdoll-303/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew a shopping guide could be a covetable book? The well-designed and beautifully-photographed  eat.shop.guides are very nearly coffee table material.]]></description>
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		<title>Alligators, Old Mink and New Money : One Woman</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2005/12/01/ppdoll-279/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherri-feldman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people’s memories revolve around the company they shared or the food they ate; Alison Houtte remembers her life in terms of fashion.]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading: Verdura &#8211; The Life of a Master</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2005/11/02/ppdoll-244/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn, Babe Paley and Diana Vreeland all wore his jewelry.]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading: Twins</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2005/10/02/ppdoll-201/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yael-avni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This debut novel by <b>Marcy Dermansky</b> is a surprising, unusual story that spans across the formative teenage years of twin sisters Chloe and Sue.]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading: Allure</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2005/09/19/ppdoll-190/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read The Devil Wears Prada (and I don't recommend it), you'll get a tiny glimpse into the maddeningly vague commands (and demands) that a current fashion editor-in-chief tosses off to staff, expecting complete satisfaction without further clarification.]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading: Having an 80s moment</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2005/09/06/ppdoll-175/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's go back a minute. If you read W, if you read WWD, if you read any of the insider, gossipy, fashion related rags, and even the insider, gossipy non-fashion publications, like Gawker.com, for example, you have John Fairchild to thank.<br />]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading: Doing One</title>
		<link>http://www.papierdoll.net/themag/2005/08/22/ppdoll-159/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Radon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may look and feel like a coffee table book, but you can buy it and feel good about writing the purchase off to "research."]]></description>
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