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• 05.21.07
  Salty Snacks for the Fashionable: Monday, May 21, 2007
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  New reports today say that designer Sophia Kokosalaki (left) has been outed at Vionnet. Replacing her is Marc Audibet, a well-known admirer of Vionnet, cedited for developing stretch fabrics made from Du Pont's LYCRA, "the most important development in fashion in the 80's". I can't say I'm chuffed, nor surprised; although all seemed copacetic, fashion intelligentsia have long contended the St. Martin's grad lacked the expertise to revive a house that irreversibly modernized women's fashion and whose own interests -pin tucking and pleating - were ostensibly more Madame Gres than Vionnet. And once again, the cutthroat fashion industry holds onto ...
  
  
• 05.14.07
  Salty Snacks for the Fashionable: Monday, May 14, 2007
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  Director Sofia Carmina Coppola (left) celebrates her 36th birthday today. Perhaps one of the few American women with a style all her own. Even if that style is arguably French.The deputy Gloucestershire coroner David Dooley ruled Friday that the death of fashion aristocrat Isabella Blow was suicide by way of drinking paraquat weed killer. After speculation her death was a result of her well-documented depression, it's a dramatic ending to a nothing less than iconic life.
  
  
• 05.05.07
  Salty Snacks for the Fashionable: Saturday, May 5, 2007
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  Costume Institute Gala Tidbits. Irina Lazareanu will wear Phillip Lim. Anh Duong will wear Christian Lacroix HC. Lisa Airan - no surprise here - will wear Rodarte. Hana Soukupova is wearing Thakoon. Lauren Davis is wearing custom made Nina Ricci, which she says retails (key word: not purchased) for almost $28,000.Speaking of the rich, ex-Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker has said that her 'Bitten' line will offer clothes for "real women out there." I'm not sure if this is an attempt to cajole women with her "realness" or her fulfilling her public service duty. I see it ...
  
  

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