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Ed Baynard: An Artist Fighting Against the Ugly Art Trend

December 4, 2013 Posted by admin

Beauty in art is in the eye of the beholder and today the beholder loves ugly. I have spent a life of loving art and am sad to comment that today contemporary art (more than any other period of human ....

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70 is the New 45

October 30, 2013 Posted by admin

70 is the new 45. I should know; I just celebrated my 70th birthday with a gift to myself -- a week in Paris all alone, just to eat, look at the fashion in the windows and art in the galleries and t....

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My Recent Visit to the Irving Penn Exhibit “Assignment”

October 15, 2013 Posted by admin

My recent visit to the Irving Penn exhibit "Assignment " at Pace McGill gallery in NY was a real shock. I expected to see Penn's famous Vogue photos of his wife Lisa, and his favorite model Jean Patc....

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A Green Can Opener Sold in 1977 Opened the World to Home Shopping

October 8, 2013 Posted by admin

An avocado green can electric opener sold on the radio in Clearwater Florida in 1977 was the birth of at-home shopping. I was dumbfounded when I learned this fact at my first class of "How to Sell o....

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My Diet by Numbers

September 27, 2013 Posted by admin

Most Americans eat 3 servings of fruits, vegetables and nuts a day. I was shocked to find this out when I did a study while traveling on airplanes for fashion shows at 21 Neiman Marcus stores around A....

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The sexual revolution started in the late fifties in Paris with two movies and two big movie stars

August 22, 2013 Posted by admin

  The sexual revolution started in the late fifties in Paris with two movies and two big movie stars: Brigitte Bardot in And God Created a Woman in 1956 and Jean Paul Belmondo in Breathless in 1....

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There Is No Grey in Paris Fashion This Summer

August 7, 2013 Posted by admin

There is no grey in Paris fashion this summer, only black and white and vivid colors; fushia, magenta, cobalt, lime, tangerine, and rose red. There are magnificent prints; Sweet English flowers, Ic....

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Fashion Historians and Fashionistas Take Note

July 26, 2013 Posted by admin

Fashion Historians & Fashionistas take note: The mystery of who "invented" or who "created" the wrap dress is forever solved. You might ask "Does it matter in the scheme of things?" Well, Irving ....

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A Truly Handsome African American Was the Fashion Genius Behind Hermes in Paris. Who knew?

June 19, 2013 Posted by admin

  Very few people ever knew that a black American from Brooklyn via South Carolina was the fashion genius behind the original Hermes in the glamour years of Princess Grace and the '60s. Jimmy G....

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