Sylvie	Adieu Loris Azzaro... Le créateur       italien né en Tunisie Loris Azzaro s'est éteint à Paris le 20       novembre... Né en 1933, il a commencé dans la mode en créant des       accessoires scintillants de perles de cristal, et il a fondé la maison       qui porte son nom en 1968 suite au succès d'une robe ajourée de cercles,       qui fut photographiée par tous les magazines de la mode. Sa prédilection       pour les fourreaux colorés et fluides, ainsi que les bustiers drapés,       les plissés et drapés lui a gagné une clientèle à commencer par       Marisa Berenson, suivies de Raquel Welch, Claudia Cardinale, Joan Collins,       Sophia Loren, Isabelle Adjani et Vanessa Paradis... Pour les collections       automne hiver 1998-1999 une série de pantalons en vinyl faisait renaître       un certain gout de la "futuristic fashion" ou "Space Age       Fashion"

Fashion Femme Fatales

Gene, Tyler Wentworth, Willow and Daisy--They're new, they're hot, and they want a piece of Barbie's Action!

For years, Barbie was the undisputed queen of the fashion dolls. Although there were many rival fashion dolls in the 1960s such as Tammy and Tressy, there hasn't been a "serious" fashion doll with a "serious" fashion wardrobe for dressing and undressing the doll until the late 1990s, when the very successful Gene came on the scene. Gene's success has spawned several additional fashion dolls, and has also helped cause Mattel to create high-quality changeable fashions for Barbie for the first time in years, for such lines as the "Barbie Millicent Roberts" (BMR) collection. These new dolls--Gene, Tyler Wentworth, and Daisy and Willow (along with Tonner's Julia and Tonner's Models Collection, among others) have stolen the collector hearts (and pocket books!) of many current (and former) modern Barbie collectors. Most of the dolls cost under $100, with fashions in the $40-$60 range, which is slightly higher than the cost of BMR dolls, and well below the cost of dolls such as the Bob Mackie Barbies.