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...Toledano recalls, "In my mind I said, This is my guy." Elbaz had taken a vacation to create his portfolio and produced designs Toledano found breathtakingly feminine. The designer's personal style was also appealing. "When he came to see me, he had on red shoes and a red jacket. The guy knew how to capture your attention." But because the decision was such an important one, Toledano knew he should see as many candidates as possible. "I wanted to protect myself from too much emotion...
...Tina Brown, composed a "Fax from Washington" that she ran in her magazine's Talk of the Town section. It was a memorable bread-and-butter note, a valentine to her host, the President, written in the prose of a Harlequin romance: she sees "a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room...his height, his sleekness, his newly cropped, iron-filing hair." Forget, wrote Brown, "all the Beltway halitosis breathed upon his image...the neo-puritanism of the op-ed tumbrel drivers." Instead, say yes to the electrical, existential Now of Bill Clinton...
...being a superstar in the first place. Heeeeeere's Yo-Yo Ma, the postmodern virtuoso! Lugging his cello and dressed in formal attire for a just completed photo shoot--tight scheduling is one of the defining characteristics of his day-in, day-out existence--he takes off his jacket and asks the two journalists present, "Mind if I change?" Since no one will admit to offense (come on, Yo-Yo, we're delighted; you just gave us our story's lead), Ma proceeds to strip down to his underwear before slipping into street clothes...
According to Peggy A. McNamara, spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), the suspects in the case are one six foot two inch tall black male with short dread locks donning a dark jacket. The other is a "shorter, stockier" black male...
...What do they want? Should I sell my Nautica jacket?" Shorey asks. "Do they want me to freeze to death...