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“Donatella may be an extreme example,” said Robert Burke, the fashion director of the luxury retailer Bergdorf Goodman. “But the issue isn’t limited to her.” Fake Handbags, Mr. Burke said, “is a fast, difficult, demanding creative business with passionate and fragile people at the center of it who are prone to the kind of weaknesses and insecurities that can result in drug abuse.”
It has been that way for decades, Mr. Burke said. “Look at Replica Handbags.” Look at Calvin Klein, whose troubles with substance abuse have been chronicled extensively. Look, more recently, at Marc Jacobs, whose phenomenal success for his own two labels and for Louis Vuitton, now underpinned by the weekly meetings he sometimes leads at a Narcotics Anonymous chapter in Paris, was once stoked by freebase and crack. Mr. Jacobs is among the few in the business brave enough to discuss openly his struggles with substance abuse. “I used to party a lot in my house, but I don’t live like that anymore,” he once explained to me over dinner at Stresa, the Italian restaurant in Paris that serves as a design world canteen. “Nobody’s throwing drinks across the room now. There isn’t a crack pipe burning on the table.”

Mr. Jacobs may have managed to tame his demons, yet there are many in the business who have not. “They pick on Kate, but, hello, look around, it’s everywhere,” said Joe Zee, the editor in chief of Vitals, the high-end shopping magazine owned by Fairchild Publications, which announced this week it would cease publication. In a previous incarnation, as the Louis Vuitton Handbags director of W, Mr. Zee worked with people from the top echelons of talent in the business. And drug use, he said, was rampant, in particular among models, many of whom enter the business straight out of middle school, too young by law to drink or to buy cigarettes and yet surrounded by adults proffering joints or snorts or Champagne splits at 9 a.m.

In one of many stories Mr. Zee has to tell, a jittery young beauty on a photo shoot compulsively ate sugar from deli packets and spent more time in the bathroom than on the set. When the shoot in question took place she was featured on the cover of most major fashion magazines. This is not, however, to suggest that the fashion business is some Victorian-style den of vice. Ms. Moss’s extramural Fake Louis Vuitton Handbags may not be unique to her or even so unusual. But her embrace of what one could term the high life has been pursued with singular gusto, those who know her say. “She seems to have embraced this myth of the rock ‘n’ roll life,” said the designer Anna Sui, referring to Ms. Moss’s on-again, off-again relationship with the drug-addled rocker Pete Doherty and her enduring friendships with Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull, two rock matrons whose most offhand anecdotes make a Lou Reed lyric seem like a “Sesame Street” theme.

Ms. Moss’s career may not be entirely in tatters, Louis Vuitton Scarves seems, since French Vogue has said it would go forward with plans for her to be guest editor an issue. And her agent, Sarah Doukas of Storm, said on Wednesday in an interview with The Times of London authorized by Ms. Moss that she is close to signing a new deal with a “blue-chip perfume,” although she did not name the brand. Ms. Moss herself issued a statement last week taking “full responsibility for my actions,” an assertion that was widely interpreted as an indication she would enter rehabilitation, as in the past. “She’s not an idiot,” Ms. Doukas said in the interview. “She’ll do what she has to. Ideally she’d lie low for a long time, but there are work commitments.”

So far these have not included the runway work for which she has been celebrated. The Louis Vuitton Shoes so eager in the past to capitalize on her slacker insouciance and celebrity seem to be giving Ms. Moss a pass, although few dispute that an appearance by her would jolt life into a largely inert season. “I don’t know if even she knows what the right choice is anymore,” Ms. Sui, a friend of the model, remarked.

And if Ms. Moss cannot seem to guide herself wisely – after 17 years of plying a trade in which she was from the beginning associated with drugs as the unwitting symbol of heroin chic – what of the hundreds of young women who appear every year at casting calls and the offices of modeling agents, the sort of girls who imagine the fashion business bears some resemblance to the Louis Vuitton Ties that drew 4.72 million viewers to the season’s first episode of “America’s Next Top Model” on UPN?

“I do not agree with the way the press has been so disgusting with Kate,” Tom Pecheux, a makeup artist, said backstage on Wednesday at the Missoni show. “Who are these people to judge this amazing mother, this amazing person, this amazing model?” Mr. Pecheux’s question, while valid, becomes another and more challenging one when he characterizes Ms. Moss’s Gucci Handbags in the context of an industry in which the corporate demands on “the talent” grow with every season, frenetic cycles in which days and nights and even weeks run together in a blur of labor and nerves and almost inevitable self-abuse.

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Fun has been the missing ingredient in fashion, and when I’m in an ornery mood, I like to blame the organizers of the CFDA/Vogue Fund for using large sums of money to encourage young designers to be serious and grown-up, and robbing the rest of us of the pleasures of seeing wayward youth. So, as the fall Alexander Wang Handbags collections began late last week and continued over the weekend, it was a delight to see so many young women, well, misbehaving.

The first culprit was Alice Roi, who opened her show on Saturday, the eve of her 30th birthday, with a head-clearing blast of rock and models in purplish Goth lip color and boxy-heeled Mary Janes that looked as if they’d have no trouble taking Marc Jacobs’s Mouse flats.

Ms. Roi has a knack for choosing feminine elements, like a Peter Pan collar, a sack dress or the small cape shoulder of a Red Riding Hood coat, and subverting them just enough so they don’t seem goody. She has a delicious sartorial joke sense that has grown more and more sophisticated.

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You can’t help feeling that if Ms. Roi were any more aware of contemporary life, its small disappointments and contingency plans (well, what if Ken is gay?), she would be doing stand-up or supplying Roz Chast with material for one of her cartoons. And what makes Ms. Roi more aware than many of her fashion sisters?

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I’m having this flashback, said Julie Gilhart, the fashion director of Barneys New York, as I approached the bar. Do you remember when Luella Bartley showed that collection in London where all the models were drunk? I nodded. There was broken glass everywhere. That was Luella’s start.

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An hour later, in the gloom of the Players Club on Gramercy Park South, people were standing around for the start of a show by a British designer named Sue Stemp. A publicist approached Bill Cunningham, the photographer for The New York Times, who was leaning against a table, and asked if he wanted to go upstairs and photograph people as they received a 10-minute hit of oxygen from a new machine. Mr. Cunningham would have none of it though.

Jessica Joffe just did it, the publicist said. Who’s Jessica Joffe? The publicist looked stunned. She’s a girl about town, he said defensively. A few minutes later the show started. Actually, it was brilliant. The audience just sort of stepped back to clear a path for the models as they came gliding out in these cute Chinese-print minidresses, a hooded sweater over cream lace tap pants, and a fuzzy mohair minidress in pink and gray stripes.

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With a shift toward a mean sense of fun, Nicole Miller’s ladylike clothes looked out of step, and the Paris Hilton impersonator in the front row, self-consciously applying her lip gloss, was a distraction. I mean, the pretender who gave her autograph to little girls before the show wasn’t the real thing, right?

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Is she beautiful

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To that extent, buying Hermes Handbags from Marc Jacobs is like joining a club. Of course, that can be a turnoff to some people, but that would matter only if Mr. Jacobs sought a justification for the ads, one beyond their ability to inspire and provoke. And since some of the ads barely show the clothes, clearly he is not.
You can’t help wondering, looking at a decade’s worth of ads, why more designers can’t produce Hermes Wallets and original narratives. One explanation is they don’t have Mr. Jacobs’s degree of confidence. Nor do the photographers enjoy Mr. Teller’s level of freedom. As Mr. Teller said, he and Mr. Jacobs have a chat at the start of a season, and Mr. Jacobs never directs him. “It’s really that simple,” Mr. Jacobs said. “I leave him alone, and he goes off and does his thing. Then we look at the pictures and we talk.”

Breaking into a grin, he added: “Juergen is Juergen Teller’s biggest fan — full stop. Usually after the shoot I get a phone call from him …” — Mr. Jacobs dropped into a German accent — ‘The Burberry Handbags are really excellent, they’re really excellent.’ I think he uses the word excellent a lot.”

Mr. Teller wouldn’t bother to deny this. Yet, because of his humor, his intimate method of shooting, and a clear indifference to body shame, Burberry Wallets would be easy to underestimate the value of what he does. As Mr. Hack said, “Juergen is very funny as a provocateur, but I think he’s deadly serious as an artist.” His is not so much a skewed view of things as it is a supremely neutral one.

Shamelessness is a feature of contemporary life; it visibly afflicts the celebrity and the wannabe celebrity, but it also informs and liberates the artist. For the Rampling shoot, which was done in a Paris hotel suite, Mr. Teller thought it made sense for him to be in the ads, since he and the actress were friends and she didn’t want to endorse a product. And because he vaguely had in mind a fantasy, he also packed on 15 extra pounds. “I thought I should be this Chanel Handbags,” he said.

The only trouble with that plan was he couldn’t fit into the Fake Handbags Mr. Jacobs sent. “I thought, ‘What the hell am I going to do now?’ ” he said. “There were these silver underpants, these sport pants.” Mr. Teller laughed and continued: “The next day Charlotte arrived, and I was totally starting to sweat. She said, ‘Now what are we going to do?’ I said, ‘I’m going to show you what I’m going to wear.’ So I went into the bedroom, and I came out in these silver underpants. And she said, ‘What the hell is that?’ ”

At this point, as Ms. Rampling howled, Mr. Teller said, he was having grave doubts about the rest of his plan. “I was smoking my cigarette, breaking out in a sweat. I said, ‘Well, I was just thinking I could kiss you and fondle your breasts.’”

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Mr. Teller paused. “So that was the ad.”

In spite of an affinity for a certain kind of unpolished beauty, which Mr. Jacobs traces to grunge and the early work of Mr. Teller, as well as the pictures of Wolfgang Tillmans and Corinne Day, it’s hard to say how these two men influence each other. Anyway, it seems a question of consciousness.

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The balance of power

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PARIS — Arcs of water rose from a fountain and fell in curtains of spray at the Fake Handbags show Wednesday, the closing day of the four-week, four-city international women’s shows for autumn 2010.
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Set against the retro, 1950s clothes with full skirts and bosoms to the fore, the designer Marc Jacobs put Vuitton in perspective. Louis Vuitton Handbags is a leather house, hence the skirts and coats of the finest, strokeable skins, part of the luxurious quality and craftsmanship that emanated from the entire collection.

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In the usual high-profile front row, Bernard Arnault, chief executive of LVMH Hennessy Louis Vuitton, sat beside the Russian model Natalia Vodianova, while Yves Carcelle, Vuitton’s chief executive, was between the Chinese movie star Fan Bingbing and the Indian entrepreneur Lara Dutta. You don’t get much more global than that.

Thirty minutes before the start

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Thirty minutes before the start of the Prada Handbags show, the models were lined up and waiting. Mr. Jacobs, in a formal mood, was wearing a three-piece suit but had removed the jacket. Out front, where the floor and specially built walls were covered with brown cardboard, giving the aura of a giant box, guests milled around. The photographers, without celebrities to snap (none had been invited) were like chickens idly pecking around a barnyard.
And so all was calm at Marc Jacobs, in contrast to previous seasons when the scene was part of the fun, crushing or not. Then, too, Mr. Jacobs was interested in Prada Wallets, involving a set, and afterward journalists would troop backstage to unearth the meaning.

On Monday night, though, the music was a remix of “Over the Rainbow,” from “The Wizard of Oz.” That’s only worth mentioning because a number of puff-sleeve dresses, and the Alexander Wang Handbags with anklets, pointed to Dorothy. The rest of the show needed no explanation.

“Did you like it?” Mr. Jacobs asked guests backstage. “It’s beautiful, right?”

Yes, Mr. Jacobs, Bally Handbags was beautiful.

Part of the tug of “Over the Rainbow” is that it’s an American ballad, written by E. Y. Harburg, known as Yip, and that seemed to be Mr. Jacobs’s idea — to create a buoyant Cartier Handbags collection.

His timing couldn’t be better. American style is the subject of this year’s major costume exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, opening in May. And by banishing celebrities from his front row, at least for now, Mr. Jacobs has pointedly returned the focus to the clothes. Fake Handbags has been a complaint about American fashion — that it has been sidetracked into celebrity, parties and co-branding deals. What about its great tradition of innovative design?

If the spirit of American fashion is modernism, Mr. Jacobs seemed to approach that ideal in at least two ways — through a neutral palette, with flashes of bitter yellow, that evoke modern interiors free of Old World clutter, and in the modest, relaxed line of the clothes. The majority of the Replica Handbags, in wools and double-faced cashmere, were A-line and hemmed below the knee. A sleeveless taupe blouse with a streaming sailor tie appeared with a wool kilt in a slightly warmer tone, the wool cut in window slats and inset with chiffon. By raising the center of a peacoat and pinching the back, he gave the classic shape a new, flattering silhouette.

Probably he has shown pantsuits before, but two in putty gray looked just right. The collection was loaded with fur, piled at wrist and neck and sometimes treated as a top, but Louis Vuitton Handbags also appeared in a checked pattern for a plain shell and rounded skirt. You’d think it was tweed.

A trip to a Texas border town, seeing factory employees walk to work half asleep, gave Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte the concept of a young woman dressing herself in the dark, using short and long lengths of fabric, washed-out florals and highly textured knits that also looked haphazard.

Yet, while some of the constructions were beautiful, the concept rapidly wore thin, and perhaps it was not developed enough.