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Magnificent Obsessions’ Show at the Barbican Explores Portraits of the Artist as Collector

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LONDON — Their works may be coveted by collectors, but artists often have a predilection for building eccentric collections of their own. Many like to pick up bric-a-brac from curiosity shops, market stalls and auction houses. Predictably enough, Damien Hirst owns skulls and stuffed animals. Less widely known is that Peter Blake hoards vintage shop signs, while Martin Parr boasts an impressive collection of Soviet souvenirs.</div>
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“Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector” features these artists and 11 others in an exhibition of miscellany at the Barbican Art Gallery here through May 25. Spread over two levels, the show presents about 8,000 objects from the artists’ personal collections. Most are exhibited just as the artist keeps them, in an environment that resembles the artist’s studio, and next to one or more examples of his or her art.</div>
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Not every display has the same thrift-shop, idiosyncratic feel hinted at in the exhibition’s title. Yet “Magnificent Obsessions” does demonstrate that collecting is a trait shared by many artists — and one that offers interesting clues to their work.</div>
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The idea for the exhibition came to the Barbican curator Lydia Yee a few years ago, she said, after she noticed objects in artists’ studios that were not being used in their work. Persuading them to lend the paraphernalia “wasn’t straightforward,” she noted, as those collections were not meant for public display. Organizing the show allowed her “to get behind the thought process of an artist,” she said, “to think the way they think, and to look at the world in their eyes.”</div>
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Mr. Blake, 82, the British Pop Art pioneer famous for the Beatles’ 1967 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover, comes across as one of the exhibition’s most formidable hoarders. “Most people collect something: I think it’s a natural instinct, even if it’s only shoes that you wear,” he said in a telephone interview. “Sometimes it works to a degree where it’s almost a disease.”</div>
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His own collecting habits can safely be described as obsessive. “I used to go to markets at five in the morning to try and get things before other people could get them,” he said. The dozens of items in his display are a hodgepodge with no overarching logic. They include musket balls fired during the 1643 siege of Arundel Castle (in their original Victorian cabinet of curiosities); a stuffed hare with the horns of another creature weirdly tacked on; old signage (“Wallpaper, Glass & Colour Department”), and elephant figurines.</div>
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Mr. Blake was only 7 when World War II broke out, and he said he went through childhood with little to play with besides bird eggs. As a result, he said, for decades afterward he frantically bought objects. These appear occasionally in his art. One car-related sign originally slated for the Barbican exhibition was unavailable because Mr. Blake had incorporated it into another work, curators said. The only Blake work on show, “Kamikaze” (1965), is an acrylic-and-collage-on board piece incorporating a toy airplane, a mask and postcards.</div>
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In the case of Mr. Hirst, the link between the collecting and the art is even more evident. Famous for creating works with dead animals (like sharks in formaldehyde), he has lent items to the Barbican that include a majestic Somali stuffed lion (c. 1880), a stuffed vulture (c. 1920), and a large human skull. The Hirst artwork in the show, “Last Kingdom” (2012), is a large, mirrored cabinet of attractively displayed butterflies, beetles and other entomological specimens.</div>
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Ms. Yee said that one participant who took little persuasion to join the show was Edmund de Waal, perhaps because he is better known for his collection of carved Japanese netsuke figurines (kimono toggles) than for his pottery. In his best-selling 2010 memoir, “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” he traces the dramatic trajectory of the figurines, which he inherited from wealthy Jewish ancestors who were dispossessed during World War II.</div>
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Many of the netsuke are now at the Barbican show. So are fossils, coins and medals, Victorian toothpicks and other odds and ends that Mr. de Waal lovingly arranged and rearranged in a vitrine in his childhood bedroom. His artwork is not unlike that early display case. In the show is his “From the Collection of a Private Man” (2011), a white wall cabinet filled with precisely arranged immaculate porcelain pots. “Collecting is a kind of poetry: It’s a shuffling around of objects and spaces until they make sense,” he said in a phone interview.</div>
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In some cases, collecting becomes a way of prolonging childhood, Ms. Yee said, “the moment where we have the most creative freedom in our lives, are able to try things out, arrange our worlds.” Artists can make it last without feeling self-conscious, she added.</div>
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<span style="color: #326891;">Andy Warhol</span> is a perfect (and well-known) example. A vast shelving unit in the exhibition is stocked with his gleaming cookie jars, ceramic containers shaped like a clock, a rocking horse or a panda. These and other objects that he accumulated “signified comfort, family life, stability,” Ms. Yee said.</div>
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The other series that suggests childlike enchantment belongs to Mr. Parr. His cigarette cases, clocks and tin confectionary boxes bear images of the stray dogs that the Soviet Union sent on space missions in the 1950s. With names like Laika, Belka and Strelka, the happy-looking hounds are depicted wearing colorful life vests, sometimes with tongues hanging out. Mr. Parr, whose photographs are often sarcastic portrayals of leisure and tourism, is drawn to image-based, mass-produced objects that have political connotations, Ms. Yee said.</div>
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Of the 14 artists in the exhibition, only two are women: the California multimedia artist Pae White and the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, who died in 2009. Ms. Yee said she had wanted to include more women, but had found that “the person who is more likely to focus in a very singular manner on a particular type of acquisition often tends to be male.”</div>
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That left Ms. White as the only living woman in the show. “I’ve never considered that a male impulse — buying cheap, beautiful things,” she said of the divide suggested by Ms. Yee.</div>
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Ms. White’s display is an installation of colorful patterned textiles by the designer Vera Neumann hung like pennants on slanting rows of stretched wire. The collection started with two scarves bought from a thrift store and now contains more than 3,000 pieces.</div>
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Why collect? “It’s small victories on a regular basis,” Ms. White said, pointing to the textiles. “If nothing has gone well that day, you got this 59-cent scarf unexpectedly, on the way to the bank.”</div>
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What a difference a year makes.</div>
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Less than 12 months after investors valued Snapchat, the red-hot messaging app, at about $10 billion, the start-up is again in the market for money — and poised to nearly double that valuation.</div>
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A range of other popular start-ups are also poised to propel their net worths to similar multibillion-dollar heights, including the virtual scrapbooking service Pinterest and the ride-hailing app Lyft. Uber, Lyft’s top competitor, has raised more than $3 billion in the last year and now has an eye-popping valuation of $40 billion.</div>
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Giant sums of money and sky-high valuations are nothing new in the technology industry. But the latest burst of activity has put on clear display the frenzied pace of investors, who are eager to catch the next blockbuster company like Facebook. The action is also again spurring talk that overeager investors are poised to relive the dot-com boom and bust at the turn of the century, when overinflated start-ups led to a quick and painful downturn.</div>
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For investors, the hunt is for the next so-called unicorn, a nascent business worth $1 billion or more — on paper, at least.</div>
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Just last year, 38 privately held companies backed by venture capital joined the billion-dollar club, putting the membership of that group at 54, according to the data firm CB Insights. Digi-Capital, a mobile Internet advisory firm, estimates that the total value of mobile Internet start-ups worth $1 billion or more increased $28 billion in just the last quarter of 2014.</div>
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“The grand experiment that we are running right now is, Can you cram hundreds of millions of dollars into 80 or 90 different private companies and have it end up well?” said Bill Gurley, a partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark who is also an investor in and one of the most vocal proponents of Uber.</div>
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He added: “For some, I think it will end badly.”</div>
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Billion-dollar companies were once considered rare. But they are quickly becoming more commonplace. Case in point: Slack, the workplace collaboration start-up, hit the billion-dollar valuation mark just eight months after introducing its service. And at $46 billion, Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone giant that started just five years ago, is the most richly valued private tech company in the world.</div>
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Even in recent years, some of the highfliers have landed hard. Fab, an online retailer once valued at close to $1 billion, is now reportedly close to being sold for less than $20 million.</div>
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Yet the stories of failure have not dented investor appetite for the brightest stars in the start-up firmament. Pinterest, the social bookmarking site, is in talks to raise $500 million at a valuation of more than $10 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.</div>
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Snapchat, too, is considering raising $500 million at a valuation of up to $19 billion, according to a person briefed on those talks. Though the company, best known for teenagers flocking to its disappearing messages, has been collecting revenue from advertising for less than a month, the promise of its business has excited many in the tech and media industries.</div>
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“I know it’s an ephemeral platform, but my 14-year-old spends half her life there,” Jeremy Zimmer, the head of the United Talent Agency, said at an industry conference, Code Media, this week.</div>
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The size of investments has clearly picked up. About $48.3 billion was invested in 2014, up 61 percent from the same time the previous year, according to a report by the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers. But that money went into 4,356 deals, up only 4 percent, suggesting that more of that capital is going into fewer — and bigger — rounds.</div>
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Investors have been eager to raise even more money to pour into start-ups. Dedicated venture capital firms raised nearly $30 billion last year, a level untouched since 2007, according to Thomson Reuters.</div>
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Much of the money that has helped inflate the latest rounds of financing has come from <span style="color: #326891;">mutual fund</span> giants like BlackRock, Fidelity and <span style="color: #326891;">T. Rowe Price</span>, known for years for buying shares in start-ups once they go public. But lately the mutual fund companies have been big investors in start-ups like Uber, looking to tap into phenomenal growth.</div>
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Executives at these mutual funds say that they had long sought to move into the world of venture capital. But they really gained access in recent years as the size of the investments in start-ups grew into the tens of millions of dollars or more — enough to meaningfully affect their investment returns.</div>
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Part of what drives the bigger investments, investors say, is the advent of today’s technology — high-speed Internet connections, the ubiquity of smartphones, modern social networks — that has made it possible for start-ups to become nearly overnight sensations, moving much faster than they would have 15 years ago.</div>
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Now, with millions of people using their products and a fertile investment environment, these start-ups are willing to stay private for much longer than they may have years ago.</div>
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“It used to be if you wanted to raise the ultimate round of capital, it was only available on the public markets,” said Mark Suster, a partner at Upfront Ventures. “But because these companies are becoming so big, they don’t need to go public quickly, and they’re raising capital in the private markets that they would have in the public markets.”</div>
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Many of these investors, according to those on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, are willing to invest at huge valuations because they plan to sell their shares soon after start-ups go public.</div>
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But not all participants in the latest mega-rounds want to cash out quickly. Some, like Henry Ellenbogen, are into these companies for the long haul.</div>
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Mr. Ellenbogen, the head of the New Horizons fund at T. Rowe Price and an investor in Twitter before it went public, put it best in his letter to investors late last year: “We prefer private companies that we would want to own more of on the I.P.O., not less.”</div>
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Ralph Lauren: A New York Icon

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It wouldn’t be New York Fashion Week without Ralph. His show is unmissable, as much for his standing in the world as for the revolutionary fashion or novelty of his clothes. A Ralph show is — maybe should always be — a Ralph show, so easily identifiable, so (to borrow one of fashion’s favorite clichés) iconic that you could probably peg one from space.</div>
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This one opened with an odyssey of taupe, journeyed through the Southwest and ended up in evening wear, the sort that might reappear on the Oscars red carpet this weekend — though likely not, as Mr. Lauren showed the last look, with furry gloves and a trapper’s hat.</div>
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There was a passage of looks inspired by men’s wear, too, some of them close cousins of those shown earlier at the company’s men’s presentation. The three-piece black leather suit available for him at Purple Label came down the runway for her; likewise the black evening boiler suit. Ricky Lauren, Mr. Lauren’s wife, was wearing a one-piece jumpsuit herself in the front row.</div>
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She was huddled in with Kanye West, who was seated among the Lauren clan. (Last week, in an interview with Style.com, he waxed ecclesiastical when describing Mr. Lauren: “Ralph is the god,” he said. “And that’s all I want to say about Ralph.”) A few seats down, and a couple Laurens away, sat the first lady of New York City, Chirlane McCray. She was so much a part of the family unit that when they leapt up to give the patriarch a standing ovation at the end of the show, she did too. Mr. Lauren offered her his hand.</div>
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“It was a wonderful show,” she said afterward, as she was ferried backstage. “I’m really happy to be here celebrating Ralph Lauren. A New York icon, right?</div>
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Opening Ceremony Show or Spike Jonze Exhibition?

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Note the obscured face on that T-shirt. That belongs to Spike Jonze, 35-mm photographer, film and music video director, Oscar-winning screenwriter and, increasingly, contributing pal to Opening Ceremony.</div>
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Last season, Mr. Jonze interpreted the Opening Ceremony story, staging a one-act play on the retailer-turned-label’s history for its show; this season, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon returned the favor, using their fall presentation to curate a one-night only show of his early photos, 1985-2005. (The eagle-eyed could spot Chloë Sevigny, Keanu Reeves, Björk, the Beastie Boys, BMX legends and Kurt Cobain throughout.)</div>
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The photos lined the walls, but that wasn’t all. Ms. Lim and Mr. Leon cut up outtake photos to make prints for the O.C. garb, and subjected doodled-on contact sheets to the same treatment.</div>
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The collection, an explanation from the designers ran, “takes its cue from the New York School,” not only in the art itself — they mentioned the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler in particular, as well as the thinky conceptualism of Robert Morris — but the way that “the midcentury movement that shifted the focus of the art world to New York for the first time in art history.”</div>
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It’s not a big leap to make the parallel plain: Proenza Schouler is one of a very small number of designers who seem capable of exciting the kind of attention in Europe’s fashion capitals as they do in New York. (Not for nothing was LVMH rumored to be circling last August, with an eye to acquiring a stake in the line.)</div>
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Coats and dresses both wrapped and gaped, revealing dotted tights. Shoes wound around the feet and closed in knots. The finale looks were practically pagan, spotted with embroidery and sprouting feathers.</div>
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The whole collection went down with a bit of shock, as contemporary art can do. Just ask contemporary artists and their patrons in the gallery and curatorial worlds. Plenty of them made the trek up Madison to take it in: the artists Tauba Auerbach, Emily Sundblad and Nate Lowman; the photographers David Sims and Craig McDean; Amy Greenspon, the gallerist; and Klaus Biesenbach, the local genius of MoMA’s PS1. — MATTHEW SCHNEIER</div>
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From Proenza Schouler, a Collection Fit for a Museum

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Celebrating Oscar de la Renta and His Successor

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On one side of the runway sat the old guard, the perfectly coifed, expensively-furred women who made Oscar de la Renta a Park Avenue icon, women like Nancy Kissinger and Mercedes Bass. Barbara Walters was settled in their company; Annette de la Renta, the designer’s widow, was too, seated beside Anna Wintour. Bill Cunningham, before the show, hurried over to give her a warm hug.</div>
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On the other side, facing them, was the new guard, the brightest stars among them — and the reason, in all likelihood, for the many photographers waiting outside — Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss, a pair of skyscraper besties in complementary Oscar de la Renta dresses and clicking heels. Huma Abedin was just down the aisle.</div>
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The occasion Tuesday night was the first show by Peter Copping, Mr. de la Renta’s successor, who took the reins of the house more abruptly than planned when Mr. de la Renta died in October.</div>
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And when the collection came down the runway in the center, ranging from smart-set daywear in georgette, bouclé and tweed to fairy-tale ball gowns in radzimir and duchess satin, each model sporting an impeccable updo with a faint resemblance to Mrs. de la Renta’s own, it was met with warm applause. Guards old and new are not always in accord, but both sides agreed that Mr. Copping had done the founder proud. — MATTHEW SCHNEIER</div>
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On Oscars Weekend, Tom Ford Draws the Starriest Front Row of the Fashion Season

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Tom Ford staged a fashion show in Hollywood on Oscars weekend, and it turns, out that, yes, everyone would show up for it.</div>
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Everyone like Gwyneth Paltrow.</div>
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“”I love the fact that Tom’s saying there aren’t rules in fashion anymore, that there aren’t seasons,” she said at a pre-show cocktail party, making her way into the show at Milk Studios.</div>
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And Julianne Moore, nominated for the Academy Awards in the best actress category.</div>
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“It’s pretty fun to be a spectator,” she said from her front-row perch. But surely she’s not a just a spectator from the front row, what with reporters bothering her and photographers begging for just one more shot?</div>
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“But I’m talking about Tom,” she said, sounding relieved. “I’m not talking about myself.”</div>
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And Scarlett Johansson.</div>
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“”It’s unexpected to see an event like this in Los Angeles more than anything,” she said, sitting nearby Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lopez and Amy Adams, and wistfully recalling the halcyon days of Los Angeles Fashion Week.</div>
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The Top 10 Moments From Fall/Winter 2015 New York Fashion Week

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<em>T’s market director rounds up the most memorable happenings both on and off the runways.</em></div>
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<strong>Fashion’s family meal</strong></div>
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In the middle of the marathon that was New York Fashion Week, the powerhouse online retailer Net-a-Porter brought together editors and designers — Jason Wu, Jenna Lyons, Adam Lippes — for a family dinner of sorts in honor of the newly appointed VP of Global Buying, Sarah Rutson. The gathering, which took place at Indochine, was a welcome reprieve from the hustle and bustle (and the elements).<span id="more-292686"></span></div>
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<strong>Kanye delivers fashion — and a showstopping front row</strong></div>
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After a near 45-minute wait, attendees of the curious Kanye West x Adidas collaboration were ushered into a completely dark room. The lights came on to reveal the collection — and illuminate the most impressive front row this season: Beyoncé, Jay Z, Sean Combs, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Alexander Wang and the Kardashian clan (Kris, Kim, Khloé and Kendall).</div>
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<strong>Designers at home</strong></div>
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A small set of designers opted for more personal presentations, going so far as to invite editors into their homes. First was Lisa Perry, whose Sutton Place apartment with sprawling views of the East River set the backdrop for her ’60s-inspired collection. Then, downtown in a warm West Village townhouse, Gabriela Hearst introduced her equally cozy debut collection, filled with sumptuous knits, dresses and outerwear inspired by her Uruguayan upbringing. And in Washington Square Park, Adam Lippes served breakfast among decadent Putnam & Putnam flower arrangements, which inspired the floral print in his fall 2015 collection.</div>
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<strong>Spike Jonze snaps for OC</strong></div>
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The Opening Ceremony crew knows how to put on a show. It was hard to imagine how Humberto Leon and Carol Lim could top last season’s one-act play written by Spike Jonze and Jonah Hill — but they managed to, again with the help of Jonze. The design duo staged a gallery show that combined their collection with personal photography provided by the film director, including collages of skateboarders in black and white and rare pictures of <span style="color: red;">Bjork</span>. Some of the photos even made it into the collection itself, printed directly onto the clothes.</div>
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<strong>A night at the museum</strong></div>
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The Proenza Schouler designers fittingly set their art-inspired collection against the backdrop of the Whitney Museum’s former location. It was a real-life night at the museum, complete with an appropriately appointed front row featuring big names in the art world like Dan Colen, Nate Lowman, Dustin Yellin and MOMA’s Klaus Biesenbach.</div>
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<figcaption class="caption" itemprop="description" style="color: #909090; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.2727em; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="caption-text">Black played a major role at (from left) Alexander Wang, Thom Browne and Marc Jacobs.</span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="display: inline; font-size: 1em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 8px; text-align: right;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Credit</span> Firstview</span></figcaption></figure></div>
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<strong>Back to black</strong></div>
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New York Fashion Week started off a bit quietly — until Saturday, when Alexander Wang showed a tough, overwhelmingly black collection punctuated only by studs, chain mail and a quick pop of <span style="color: red;">red buffalo plaid</span>. It was an aggressive, reactive — and totally refreshing — show. Then Thom Browne showed his own all-black collection in a funereal setting, his models mourning in seriously elegant headpieces designed by the legendary milliner Stephen Jones. And though Marc Jacobs’s collection included prints and color, the designer opened last night’s show with an all-black look, complete with gothic makeup and vinyl patent boots. Fall 2015 is shaping up to be darker than dark.</div>
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<strong>Weather woes</strong></div>
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It was cold. Really cold! Though we overheard one French stylist find the silver lining, saying the weather was “exotic,” we New Yorkers just found it painful to deal with salt-stained boots, red cheeks and the narrow fashion-show seating invaded by layers of outerwear. One redeeming factor was the runway trends toward warmth — shearling coats, knit dressing and tough boots — all of which felt especially appropriate for our sub-zero tundra.</div>
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<strong>An A-list opening for Fendi’s new flagship</strong></div>
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The corner of 57th and Madison was abuzz last Friday, as the Fendi flagship opened for a star-studded crowd. To celebrate the opening, each of five fashionable personalities (Rihanna, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jourdan Dunn, Leandra Medine and Rachel Feinstein) designed a <span style="color: red;">one-of-a-kind twist</span> on the brand’s iconic baguette bag, with all proceeds going to charity. Also in attendance at the fête were Karl Lagerfeld, Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola and more.</div>
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<strong>The end of “meh head”</strong></div>
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Spring was all about <span style="color: red;">long, slightly wavy, effortless dos</span>; but it seems lazy, “meh” hair might be finished come fall. At the Hugo Boss show, the model Edie Campbell opened the show with a brand-new haircut — and had returned to an inky black color. With short, mod bangs and longer sideburns, Campbell’s look stood out amongst the other ponytails at the show. Elsewhere, sleek — almost wet — hairstyles rivaled the au-naturel look.</div>
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<strong>Marc Jacobs. Period.</strong></div>
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Marc Jacobs had a buzzy season. At Marc by Marc Jacobs, which bears his name but is designed by Katie Hilier and Luella Bartley, the younger client was in a rebellious spirit, with a collection inspired by protest culture. His main collection shared a similar sense of excitement, with a handpainted backdrop that recreated Diana Vreeland’s famous “garden in hell” living room. The dramatic show opened with a black shift dress and elbow-length leather gloves, and continued to unfold set to the soundtrack of screeching violins. It was a thrilling way to close New York Fashion Week — London, here we come!</div>
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Don't be Surprised If You Hear of a Settlers of Catan TV Show or Film

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Gail Katz, producer of such fine films as <em>Air Force One</em> and <em>The Perfect Storm</em> has acquired film and TV rights to <em>The Settlers of Catan</em>.  She hasn't announced what exactly she plans to do with them, but she did say, </div>
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I’ve been wanting to see an adaptation of the game for years, ever since my Catan-obsessed college-aged kids introduced me to it.  The island of Catan is a vivid, visual, exciting and timeless world with classic themes and moral challenges that resonate today.  There is a tremendous opportunity to take what people love about the game and its mythology as a starting point for the narrative.</blockquote>
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Celebrity Pets – These Guys Have It Made!

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he 16 Most Ridiculously Pampered Celebrity Pets!</h2>
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Celebrities live such glamorous lives. They’re in the spotlight constantly, having every part of their personal life examined. And yet, it seems like we know so little about who they really are. Like, what do they do with their lives when they’re not on screen or being chased by paparazzi? What happens when they wake up in the morning? What do they eat for breakfast? It’s all a mystery. But, one thing is for certain: Celebrities love their pets just as much as we love our own. The only difference is they’ve probably never had to clean up a litter box or throw out a poop bag.</div>
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From chickens to cats and cute little pooches, we’ve done our research on the most pampered celeb pets out there.</div>
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Amanda Seyfried’s Australian shepherd, Finn</h3>
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This pup made his own late night debut on Letterman. He even performed some tricks! (Photo Credit: Page Six).</div>
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Coco Chanel, Tori Spellings' silkie chicken</h3>
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This lucky bird gets to dress up in fancy outfits crafted by her famous mom (Photo Credit: NY Chao Bao).</div>
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Ace, Carrie Underwood's Rat Terrier</h3>
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His momma takes him on tour with her all the time (Photo Credit: Just Jared).</div>
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Paris Hilton's armful of tiny pups</h3>
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Paris now has eight dogs in total, and most recently dropped $40,000 on three tea cup pomeranian pups. Her most recognized pooch, Tinkerbell, wears a diamond-encrusted collar (Photo Credit: Dan MacMedan / USA TODAY).</div>
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Taylor Swift's cats, Meredith and Olivia</h3>
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Both cats have their own social media accounts. The duo has also been spotted in Taylor's arms on walks through NYC (Photo Credit: Perez Hilton).</div>
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Bo Obama, the first dog</h3>
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I can only imagine all the pampering this pup gets at the White House. He does, of course, take a private jet for all of his travels. (Photo Credit: MSN).</div>
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Blu, Kendall Jenner's Great Dane</h3>
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Her brother, Rob, gave Kendall the pup for her 18th birthday. These are some really lucky animals! (Photo Credit: CeleBuzz).</div>
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Karl Lagerfeld's cat, Choupette</h3>
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The kitten has starred in her own film and gets regular manicures. I don't even get regular manicures! (Photo Credit: Perez Hilton).</div>
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Britney Spears' two tiny pups</h3>
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The pop star showers them with clothes and spends a hefty amount on pet sitters each year (Photo Credit: Perez Hilton).</div>
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Real Housewives' Lisa Vanderpump's dog, Giggy</h3>
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This pup doesn't drink out of any old water bowl - oh no. He slurps his water out of Baccarat crystal (Photo Credit: Perez Hilton).</div>
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Mutley, Mariah Carey's little pooch</h3>
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We don't know too much about Mutley's life, but we can definitely imagine what it must be like to live in this diva's household (Photo Credit: Perez Hilton).</div>
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Bieber's former primate, Mally</h3>
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Before Mally was seized in Germany, the little monkey went everywhere with the 19-year-old famous pop star. The little guy now lives in a German zoo with his own kind. Maybe that's for the best? (Photo Credit: NDTV).</div>
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Ryan Gosling's mutt, George</h3>
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George, as you can see, gets some pretty spiffy haircuts. Not to mention, he gets to make late night TV appearances with his heartthrob owner (Photo Credit: Page Six). (by viralnove)</div>
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