GRAPES' GAZETTE

Sorry about not updating lately. According to my schedule I was suppose to be half away around the world right now. Squeeze 5 min from the company morning conf. I am going to give you a straight forward information about what is going on right now. Those Belgian sent one smoking hot new director into my office and he actually has a great manner. I know I m practically married and being a modelizer, but Mr Belgium is just too sweet to pass. And why is he here? Besides intently seduce me into his charming, he is gonna push europe diamond tycoon's paper work right in front of my basic prog file. I AM NOT LETTING THAT BITCH.

So here comes the reason why NO updating and No updates during the next 2 months. Yeah, I know 2 months has 60 days which will probably bring fashion into a whole new other generation. But I'll have to deal with Mr Belgium first.

I might update a lit at the early of december. International Herald Tribune is holding a Luxury Conference in India on 3rd of December. (THE WORLD'S LEADING CONFERENCE ON THE BUSINESS OF LUXURY AND STYLE). We are there. Because every single important person in Luxury is there. We want to watch and learn. I will show you guys the first hand.:)

THEY WERE THE MOST POPULAR KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY

Believe it or not, Moschino always has the best neat boys in their show, its A designer's taste thing. It has always been like that. These boys know each other quite well, some of them are tired, some of them are workaholics, some of them are just care free, you have some one was not so excited about it, then you have someone acted a lit bit too excited-like Lenz in the sec pic, what was that, supermodel, you stole Olsen sister's move!

But they are all fine. You know that, they look so damn fine.

CARLOS MIELE AND MR X

I could tell you when and where but I can't tell you who. To be honest I am unable to.

It was in Rio. The heat, the beach, flying flowers and sexy boys and the sunshine just everywhere, I almost forgot that my feet were still land on this earth. This is so heaven and then Jackie called, so I had to tell him that we were in Rio, and that Miele has a show to be seen. Mr Carlos Miele might be the most traditional Brazilian man, warm smile, full of passion and caring, those Jackie didnt know, but one thing we both know, Carlos has insanely sexy designs.... Dont even try to imagine it... its not burning-sunlight hot, more like a harm-to-skin super hot. 

" I spot some male models this year." This sentence through the 3G phone, across the Atlantic Ocean, set Jackie up to ready that is so fast you could hear the door slamming while hanging the phone.

As soon as Jackie got in Rio's 5ive star hotel, he dived into the "sea of love". He enjoys all the "Brasil traditions", looked utter white under the sun but everyone gets that he is british. So when the show began, he was, according to my statement, no where to be found. I thought I'd stop by to say hi to Carlos in case that he thought I was lost "en route" again. I walked through a white silk tent built by a few bed sheets and there was Carlos, adjusting a guy's pants because he's literally half naked. Ever since the Dolce backstage incident, I banned myself from drooling over hulk dudes, so I raised my champagne glass ( which,oddly,is very huge, like a superbowl.) up right against my face, that way I could only see Carlos and some pieces of that model hottie. I must had an impressive progress on my awful brazilian language cos that male model kept laugh-alone when I was trying to tell a serious boring joke, you know, like Jackie slammed his head against the table trying to find  a new way of committing suicide. I talked to Carlos like about 3 mins and thanks to the hulkie hottie, my full freezed Dom Perignon went straight to boiled mineral water.

So this was what happened after the show, Jackie showed up, right on time, I grabbed him and was like: "OMG, You wont believe who I've just met!"

"Oh dear God let me guess....Barack Obama! Where is he, What have you done!" Jackie almost jumped on my face.

" Yes. The new president would really love to know what kind of fabric that Brazilian fashion designers are going to use as the middle east peace map, you drunkula!" I took away Jackie's umbrella drinks.

"Okay then. Miss I-made-the-best-fun-of-you, tell me who he is."

I suddenly realized that I didnt even know his name, he, that hot male model is a stranger, but,

" Mr. X! I call him Mr.X. He is so hot, you will never wanna leave this place if you've met him."

Jackie looked at me... his expression went drunken to disappointment and then went to "what is that? A new fashion magazine? "

"GO AWAY." I should've known this was going to happen, those vanity gays would laugh at me any chance they get. Jackie danced to those beach boys and I turned back and hit a wall...No, that was not a wall, its Mr.X's body, that still half naked body.

"I'm sorry"

"That's alright. Hey you are that girl from the show, hey my name is..."

"NO! Don't Say It! Do Not Say it!" I crazed " I have a name for you. You are Mr.X!"

The guy must thought I was dumped or broke or something.

"So could I call you Miss. X?" He smiled and maybe even a lit bit frightened by me.

"No Mrs.X. I am married....Wait, that's still not right... Hahahaha...."

Then I was sure that I was so drunk, Mr X was probably trying to keep me stay the balance and there was Jackie back from the beach house, moaning twistedly "Mr...X??" and then He passed out.

The other day, like nothing had ever happened, Jackie and I went to the airport, accidently met Deah whose father owns like half of the south America, He pulled off a jet for us just like that. We went boarding with all the air kissing,date promising, and then just when I thought I could finally have my sleep back, my cellphone "automatically" screamed.

"Who is this?"

"Hey. This is Mr.X. You gave your No. to me last night......"

VALENTINO'S RED

The famous Valentino Red Dress has graced decades through some of the most beautiful women in our time. Here is a collection for the past 10 years of the passionate flame red by Valentino.

*CASE SENSITIVE*

BOB DYLAN CIRCA 1965-1966 BY CATE BLANCHETT

Seven simple rules of going into hiding: 

one, never trust a cop in a raincoat. 

Two, beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 

Three, if asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 

Four, never give your real name. 

Five, if ever asked to look at yourself, dont. 

Six, never do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand. 

And finlly seven, never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

CHANGELING

The year 1928.Los Angeles. Christine, the mother of a nine year old boy walter was distressed to discover that her son was nowhere to be found. Months later, LAPD brought a boy claiming to be hers. But he was not.

Based on true event. The movie changling, directed by Clint Eastwood, Stars Angelina Jolie & John Malkovich. Here's the tagline:" To find her son, she did what on one else dares". This could be Jolie's graceful turn. 

We hear the OSCAR bell.

Ann Taylor Slashes Staff; Marion Cotillard’s Dior Ads Debut;Purchase Limit on H&M-CDG

• As the new face of the Lady Dior handbag, Marion Cotillard appears in the first of a four-part series of ads, perched atop the Eiffel Tower, as you see above. Her next installment will come out this month on the upcoming LadyDior.com Website. [WWD]

• Ann Taylor cut 19 percent of its staff at the company's Times Square headquarters on Wednesday for "restructuring." Following job cuts in January, Ann Taylor has lost about a third of the staff in its New York office this year. [WWD]

•Marc Jacobs has cast his Collection and Marc by Marc Jacobs campaigns. Raquel Zimmermann will star in Jacobs's women's Collection campaign, and pretty-boy photographer Ryan McGinley will star in the men's Collection campaign. Curvy Girl Daisy Lowe Lands Marc by Marc Jacobs Campaign.

•H&M Imposes Purchase Limit on the Comme des Garçons Collection. H&M is taking action to make sure Comme fans can get the pieces they want instead of half the line going to rabid eBay sellers. Customers will be able to purchase only two items of the same style, according to a press release.

PRINCIPLE OF BEAUTIES

I'm telling you, we are definitely first-sight love! Even though your polar was a lit creepy back then, but still, I couldn't help it. I love you from the start.

You said the exactly same thing 10 seconds ago!  To Bergh! I can't believe you. Do you say that to every single male model that got caught on of your eyes?

Let's see.... Hmm. Pretty much. Yeah! But my gangs are extremely selective! It's like a boutique collection. Dude you should work on your polars. That straight light totally ruined my feelings for you.

Which polar? The 10 magazine?

I thought I was good. Compared with other voodoos... You know...

Yeah, I am agree that magazines should also keep up with the world economic pace, but man I didn't know they used two pages  featuring crappy agency polars. Two Fucking pages! Don't they have an ads department to take care of all the extra causes?

Wow! Causes! I have some causes! Check this out!

Do you ever listen to me?

Honey check this out, you are going to bite me lol

Okay. What is that hurting my eyes now?

That's for my winter! What do you think? How do you like it? :)

I...think... people are right, that was not the end of the big depression. This almost did it. I lost 

the willing to bite you.

Maybe the pic is a lit bit too big? Huh...

Shouldn't this be much much more bigger when its wrap around your neck? Winnie?!

I like it! Lady hatful!

I believe that. You even look good in a trash can, and the halloween flowing back again...

Oh.Babe. You gotta let it go.lol

Not today.It was that close to turn me into gay.

You will never be gay. 

What was that you were holding in your hands again?

Moses. The book.

Listen, dude, it is not your fault your pal's wife is hot.

Haha... I knew you were gonna ditch me. 

No. Not ditching you. Ditch that! Save me!

I finished anyway.

I didnt know you were deep.

Stan read Economist at the backstage of new york. 

Yeah, cause I told him I flipped some cashes in pages. And he spent the next 4 hours tried find these.

LOL  I once saw you reading Principles of Geology ..... I'm sleepy now. What time now?

I dont know. But I'm gotta let you sleep. You looks a lit bit like Paul Newman.... from some ankles. Just a thought. Maybe becos me downloaded 100.000.000 pictures of him.

Wake me up in 5 hours

Kiss. Later.

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Marc Jacobs Spring 2009 - Shoes

The holidays are approaching and every year they are quick to go by, followed by spring’s new arrivals. Time to start making your spring wish lists. If you take the road traveled by Marc Jacobs, your spring is looking very light, gray, and inked.

SS09 RUNWAY MUSIC

10 tracks most frequently played at SS09 runway shows…

Great DJ - The Ting Tings(5 plays)

Viva La Vida – Coldplay(4 plays)

Jungle Drum - Emiliana Torrini(4 plays)

Electric Feel – MGMT(3 plays)

Jager Yoga – CSS(3 plays)

L.E.S Artistes – Santogold(3 plays)

La Vie En Rose – Grace Jones(3 plays)

O Superman – Booka Shade ft. Laurie Anderson(3 plays)

You'll Find a Way – Santogold(3 plays)

Light Years - Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve(3 plays)

10 artists most frequently played at SS09 runway shows…

Santogold(12 plays)

The Ting Tings(10 plays)

Edith Piaf(9 plays)

MGMT(8 plays)

Prince(7 plays)

Ladyhawke(7 plays)

N.E.R.D(6 plays)

The Kills(6 plays)

Lykke Li(6 plays)

Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve aka Erol Alkan(5 plays)

CSS(5 plays)

Oh~ Haven't I told you yet? DKNY used their s/s runway captures as the official campaign. That's right kids, welcome to the post recession age of fashion where you will enjoy your first boring in hell with miserable in cash.

AND THE TRENDS ARE GROUPS

With the recent downturn in the financial market, many brands look to get the most bang for their buck, mixing the top models with the rising stars and hoping to appeal to the widest possible market. Swedish giant H&M and the American company, INC roll out new images just in time for the holidays.

Look at those faces.. Boyd, Mat, Noah, Stan, Isabeli, Stella, Caroline, Lakshmi... Big names are all back to work now.

The death of Gucci capitalism

"The public recognises it has the moral right and authority to condemn the ideology that resulted in this. It is a fundamental change."




We are witnessing the death of a paradigm. As is usual at moments of mourning, the new reality is being met by denial, resistance and anger from the initiators and defenders of the old faith.
It would be parochial to think recent events expose only flaws in the banking sector - micro-flaws - and the outcome will be a mere tinkering with the financial system. The dominant economic theory of the past 20 years - a theory that put liberty before equality, gave markets more power than states, and saw risk as a public good that shouldn't be restrained - is now defunct. The laissez-faire capitalism embraced by the US and the UK some 20 years ago and foisted on the poorest countries of the world by the World Bank and IMF has had its day.
This does not mean all versions of capitalism are now redundant. But that the Anglo-American version, which actively decoupled the economy from social justice, must be buried; and the public will not tolerate its resuscitation.
Now that the cracks are so evident, jobs are in peril and household wealth is collapsing, the public is angry - and not just at bankers. We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen.
The public recognises it has the moral right and authority to condemn the ideology that resulted in this. It is a fundamental change.
Smart politicians will recognise that this is a tectonic shift - a change in the balance of power from high finance and big corporations to the people - and will seek to build political capital from it. We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets.
But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector. The financial crisis was a manifestation of a fundamentally flawed way of thinking that will hurt real people as the world enters a global recession. It will hurt not only those in the countries that preached the paradigm, but also those in countries that did not. The poorest nations will experience the double whammy of having had to deregulate, privatise and open up their markets to be eligible for aid money, and now see the pledges not met. This is the first full crisis of globalisation, a recognition that in a tightly interconnected world, one country's troubles become each and every one's. It is the first collective "lose lose".
The smartest politicians at President Bush's economic summit will be those who are not only willing to differentiate themselves from the laissez-faire past, but willing to hijack the meeting and turn it into a transparent exchange of ideas about what kind of world we want. They will be those who are not looking for a quick fix, but are capable of dismantling their prior assumptions about which ideas and theories to embrace and which to reject.
The smartest politicians will be those who understand that when the facts stop fitting the world-view, they must remake the world-view, not recreate the facts. In that process, they must draw lessons from the past 20 years. No more "one size fits all" economic prescriptions. Countries have to have the freedom to determine their economic policies to meet their own needs. And the myth that "a rising tide lifts all boats" must be jettisoned. It was never true. Social mobility in the UK has barely improved in 40 years. In the US, a quarter of the wealth is in the hands of just 14,000 families.
The next phase of capitalism will combine policies of localisation with an understanding that there are problems we share - such as carbon-dioxide emissions - that cannot be tackled alone. And it will actively seek to redefine what is valuable, so children growing up today do not make the mistakes of this generation in confusing success with the ability to purchase another pair of Nikes or a Gucci bag.

FIRST LADY WEARS RODRIGUEZ. FASHION AWAITS OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS.

• The fashion and retail industries will keep a close eye on Barack Obama's economic priorities his first 100 days in office, especially how he handles trade with China, unions, port security, and taxes. [WWD]

• Last night Michelle Obama wore a dress from Narciso Rodriguez's spring 2009 collection, one of the most critically acclaimed of New York Fashion Week. Michelle's style has impressed on the campaign trail with frugal finds from places like J.Crew and H&M and designer threads by designers like Narciso and Thakoon. [NYM]

• Marc Jacobs’s Holiday Party CANCELED. This year's "Rock and Roll Circus" party was scheduled to take place at the Rainbow Room on December 10. But yesterday Jacobs's business partner, Robert Duffy, sent out an e-mail saying the party has been canceled because of the current economic climate.

• Peter Som Launches Children’s Capsule Collection Tomorrow. Luxury children's brand Best & Co. signed the designer to create a seven-item limited-edition capsule collection — four pieces for boys and three for girls — for the holidays, launching tomorrow at Bergdorf Goodman.

• Claudia Schiffer Replaces Naomi Campbell for YSL. Claudia Schiffer will replace Naomi for the spring ads. She recently said at a party that Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadib shot the campaign in L.A. last month. Now we just have to sit back in our sweaters and wait for the ads to break. And for the tabloids to start rumors about Naomi and Claudia feuding, of course.

McQueen set to design Target

Yesterday we learned Alexander McQueen would design a diffusion line for Target based on his lower-priced McQ line. Today we have tantalizing details. The line will be available in stores and online from March 1 through April 11, 2009. Prices haven't been determined, but it's inspired by the Duke Spirit, a British band popular in the late eighties and early nineties. Lead singer Leila Moss was McQueen's muse for the collection, which WWD describes thusly:

The collection has a muted color palette of black, white, gray and tan with accents of cobalt blue and bright pink. Studs and mesh give items an edge. For example, a chambray sleeveless shirtdress has stud detailing, there’s a mesh wrap dress and an open yarn zipper cardigan. Graphic prints and silk-screen photographs give tunics, dresses and T-shirts visual interest. The Leila silk-screen T-shirt with a necklace collar was designed for The Duke Spirit lead singer, while other band members are immortalized on a sleeveless jersey T-shirt.

A sateen strapless pleat dress in a tattoo print of mermaids, dice and anchors is an example of McQueen’s penchant for pairing feminine fabrics with tough details — in this case, a studded leather belt.

Alexander McQueen does mermaids and we can afford them? This is too much. 

Btw, CDG's H&M is in store right now.... thought some of you might wanna ... fight, bite, kill for them. Well, good luck then.

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