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These young women are role models of self-possession; yet as they bump up against the untidy problems of adolescence each week, they also resemble the kids you might find flocking around a CK counter on a Saturday afternoon. Moesha may work at setting up a trip to Africa to research her heritage, but she also has a weakness for vinyl pants; Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) idolizes Annie Leibovitz but loves to dress like Audrey Hepburn; and though Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) may be great at offing vampires, she still cares deeply about making the cheerleading squad...
Sitting around a conference table in the den of the city's top brass, 17 teenagers were yakking about sneakers, CK perfume and how they were going to straighten out Boston's inner-city neighborhoods...
...being advertised was some new type of methadone clinic. I expected the copy line to be something like "There is no such thing as an absolutely hopeless human being," or "We deal with worst-case scenarios." What Klein was trying to sell, it turned out, was a perfume called cK be, described as "the new fragrance for people...
...potential purchaser of cK be perfume, I was puzzled about how I was supposed to respond to pictures of skinny, tattooed street punks who look as if they're about to get a bad case of the shakes. What am I to think these people smell like? Could Calvin Klein really be under the impression that I want to smell the way they smell...
...then Calvin Klein, more than any other major designer, has maintained a keen sense of mass-cultural tastes. He has kept his position as a beloved clothier of urbane working women, all the while forging a lucrative star status at the mall with his CK, fragrance and underwear divisions. With the launch of his jeans line in 1978, he became one of the first designers to put Vogue-world cachet within reach of ordinary consumers. In the process he helped strip fashion of its elitism; now countless designers offer lower-end lines...