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"Sorry for the gap in posting, all. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve got two somewhat disparate bits for you today. First, on beehives and whether they can actually be pretty&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;amp;#8217;d love to know what you think. Amy Winehouse&amp;amp;#8217;s admittedly scary nest of hair and exaggerated Barbra Streisand-in-the-60s makeup has a certain Rizzo-in-the-Pink-Ladies coolness to me, nutty though it is. But I&amp;amp;#8217;ve often wondered if someone who wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t a pop star diva would ever try to pull it off. I got my answer outside the Hermes boutique on rue Faubourg Saint Honor&amp;amp;eacute;, where I saw this vision of gorgeousness: 1960s glamour girl style is all over the place&amp;amp;#8212;that pic of Rihanna I posted the other day in the green dress is only one other example&amp;amp;#8212;and I&amp;amp;#8217;m hugely in favor of it. There&amp;amp;#8217;s a fierceness and a maturity to wearing a tight pencil skirt and having your hair done, your eyeliner on and your red lipstick just so. Has anyone taken the plunge? I&amp;amp;#8217;ve dusted off this tweed Alexander McQueen pencil skirt with leather trim (one of the few I have that still fits) and though hobbling around the cobblestones is not always easy, it&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of worth it. Post Part 2: Another House Revives Just found out yesterday that Guy Laroche is the next venerated label to plan a relaunch with a younger designer at the helm. The fellow in question is Marcel Marongiu, who is known to true fashion junkies in the states, and to everyone in Europe. In the 90s, it was all about Marcel and his slinky, goth-lite silks, leathers and knits. He did women&amp;amp;#8217;s, men&amp;amp;#8217;s, leather accessories, jeans, a home line&amp;amp;#8230; He dressed Madonna. But running a growing small business has claimed many a talent. Anyway, after some time consulting, it&amp;amp;#8217;s excellent to see him designing fancy-pants ladywear again. They&amp;amp;#8217;ll show the first collection during couture week, though the line will officially be &amp;amp;#8220;pr&amp;amp;ecirc;t-a-porter de luxe&amp;amp;#8221;&amp;amp;#8212;a distincton designers are wanting to make more and more now that &amp;amp;#8220;ready to wear&amp;amp;#8221; encompasses so much. Sometimes I like to play the &amp;amp;#8220;match the young designer to the house&amp;amp;#8221; game, though I am almost always wrong. Like, before they announced Jean Paul Gaultier for Hermes, I thought he would make sense running YSL&amp;amp;#8212;I mean he&amp;amp;#8217;s also very French, very colorful, very soign&amp;amp;eacute;, etc. (Of course things have worked out awfully well for JPG at Hermes and Stefano Pilati at YSL, so no complaints.) Though Lars Nilsson, formerly of Bill Blass and Nina Ricci, was hired at Gianfranco Ferre, I had thought someone with an architectural bent like Martin Margiela would make more sense, as Ferre was all about the structure. You get what I mean here. Any fashion geeks out there feel like playing? &amp;amp;#8212;Alex"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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