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...cover celebrates Liya Kebede, the first black model to sign a multimillion-dollar contract with the cosmetics giant Estee Lauder. But imagemaking isn't limited to photography. It touches on everything from the design of a perfume bottle to the conception of a snappy television commercial. In architecture, the work of rising star David Adjaye conveys the raw multimedia aesthetic of his generation. In pop music, canny image-attuned stars like Gwen Stefani are marketing their clothes the better to promote their records...
...classic lifestyle marketing at Reebok, describing the company before it entered into high-profile partnerships. "Then they got some cool friends." The company's biggest co-branding coup was in teaming with Von Furstenberg, who designed a collection of dresses for Venus Williams (she has a $40 million contract with the athletic-wear brand). It was the first designer tennis line to appear on the women's professional circuit...
...runways for Donna Karan, Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana, among others; she frequently appears in American Vogue and had an entire issue dedicated to her by the magazine's French edition, becoming just the third black model to appear on its cover. In April she signed a multimillion-dollar contract with cosmetics giant Estee Lauder, the first time in its 57-year history that the company, already represented by Elizabeth Hurley and Carolyn Murphy, signed such a deal with a black model...
...models was able to thrive. Naomi Campbell was among the first models of any race to be anointed a "supermodel," and African-American models Beverly Peele, Karen Alexander, Tyra Banks and Veronica Webb all worked consistently. In 1992 Webb became the first black model to win a major cosmetics contract when she was signed by Revlon, but she faced many of the same hurdles as Iman. "There was never the possibility that there'd be someone on a shoot who looked like you," she says. And Webb never went on a job without bringing her own foundation and having...
...been a good summer for Disney, with big hits in the multiplexes (Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean and Freaky Friday) and decent earnings last quarter. Still, CEO Michael Eisner faces plenty of challenges--first among them, renegotiating Disney's distribution contract with Pixar, the computer-animation house behind Nemo and other hits. He talked with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner...