Women and Their Fashion - Are Men Buying It? from hatil's blog

Most of us get just a fleeting glimpse of the fashion world-the occasional models, maybe a runway show. But behind the glamour and glitz is a global industry so vast so ruthless, it'd have a book and per year or even more to interview and write it honestly. By enough time I'd get around to a guide, another person may have done it better. Admittedly, fashion is an exciting business of power struggles, corruption and sexual misdemeanors. Maybe fashion imitates life, certainly it did not create skinny. Whether the chicken or the egg came first, women are becoming what they ask for. Are men?

Kate Moss, Women, and Their Magnificent Obsession

Women love clothes, and a lot of people love celebrity. Combine the two and it's no wonder that Barneys' Madison Avenue store just experienced the magic and virtual dressing roomthe rewards of the reincarnation of Kate Moss. After 19 years as one of the world's most successful models, the wonder had succumbed to the beast. Yet despite her fall from grace over the drug scandal the British press reveled in exploiting, the inimitable Moss is once again in the spotlight, having emerged from troubled model to impressive new designer in town.

Much like other talented celebrities that know how to reinvent themselves, i.e. Madonna, Jane Fonda-Kate Moss has become a formidable presence amid designer moguls. Her alter ego, the ever-present Moss mystique, is what continues to make her exclusive. With her finger on the pulse of her adoring obsessed fans, Ms. Moss knows exactly what they want, that will be anything with her name on it. Coming off a triumphant London opening of her line that drew crowds, the American scene at Barneys was less frenzied but nonetheless successful. Fans flowed into Barneys for $20 Henley tanks and $120 floral chiffon baby-dolls.