FEATURE/Glamour Magazine Reveals Top Fashionistas' "Before and After" Ratings of Monica Lewinsky's New Handbag Collection.--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)-- Is Monica Lewinsky's new handbag collection a GLAMOUR "Do" or a "Don't?" GLAMOUR's editors carried the bags at New York's 2000 Spring Collection, and asked top fashion scribes and mavens their reaction to the pouch before and after they realized that Monica made it. Here are the results: -- Jeanne Beker Jeanne Beker (born 19 March 1952 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian television personality, author and newspaper columnist, who covers fashion and lifestyle news for Citytv, FashionTelevisionChannel and The Globe and Mail. , Host, Fashion TV Before: "It's nice. It smacks of exotica ex·ot·i·ca pl.n. Things that are curiously unusual or excitingly strange: such gustatory exotica as killer bee honey and fresh catnip sauce. to a degree because it has a folkloric and ethnic feel." After: "Oh my God! I can't believe I said it smacks of exotica -- I never thought of Monica quite in that way." -- Kal Ruttenstein, Fashion Director, Bloomingdale's Before: "It's a well-designed little bag. The brocade and velvet fabric mix is in the mood of today." After: "If I were Monica, I'd put my label inside the bag, not outside like it is. I realize she's a celebrity, but nobody wants to wear their labels on the outside." -- Suzy Menkes Suzy Menkes (born 24 December 1943) has been head fashion reporter for the International Herald Tribune since 1988. Menkes was born in Britain. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School. In the 1960s, she went as a teenager to Paris to study dressmaking. , Fashion Editor, International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. It has long been the staple source of English-language news for American expatriates, tourists, and businesspeople in Europe. Before: "This is quite a great-looking bag. It's a funky piece." After: "It doesn't have a zipper zipper Device for binding the edges of an opening, as on a garment or a bag. A zipper consists of two strips of material with metal or plastic teeth along the edges, and a sliding piece that interlocks the teeth when moved in one direction and separates them again when moved . I would have to tell Monica that most women like to have a zipper on their bag so they can keep their things hidden away and their secrets secret. Maybe she should know that, and maybe she should've known it before." -- Todd Oldham, Fashion Designer Before: "I actually like it. The materials are pretty and the colors are great. It looks handmade, but it doesn't look badly made." After: "I appreciate that it's made `especially for me by Monica.' And it's great that the girl clearly has a different focus now." -- Kim Hastreiter, Editor and Publisher, "Paper" Before: "It's cute. It has a very hippie feel -- and it is a vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. bag; no animal skins were used." After: "I didn't know Monica was such a hippie. I thought she was a princess. I wonder if they'll become collectors' items." -- Robin Givhan, Fashion Writer, The Washington Post Before: "I think it's kind of a groovy groov·y adj. groov·i·er, groov·i·est Slang Very pleasing; wonderful. groov  i·ness n. 1960s, hippie-girl
look."
After: "Well, it does conjure images of free love." The December issue of GLAMOUR hits newsstands on November 16. The magazine has a readership of nearly 12 million. |
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