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Archive for July, 2008

Anne Coulter: Only on Glamwire (Vol I.)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008


Our favorite chick on the planet shoots from the hip in this incredible Glamwire EXCLUSIVE column:

Is Wall Street Liberal????

Hello Fellow Conservative!!!!

Do you know which special interest has given more money to the Obama and Clinton campaigns than any other?

If you guessed “trial lawyers” — well, okay, that’s too easy. But can you guess which special interest came in second?

Labor unions? Nope. The Green Lobby? Nope. AARP? Wrong, again. NEA? Nyet.

Give up? Okay, here’s the answer: Wall Street.

That’s right. According to CNNMoney.com, Wall Street securities and investment firms have given over $35 million to Democratic candidates this election cycle. And the amount they’ve given to the Clinton and Obama campaigns is nearly five times the amount they’ve given to McCain.

If you’ve been wondering why the financial industry has been in meltdown — and taking your 401(k) or investment portfolio down with it — now you know.

Let’s face it: The former frat boys who populate Wall Street today understand economics about as well as the pinko professors whose courses they snored through.

That’s why betting their entire industry on “subprime” loans to people with no jobs and no collateral made sense to them — and why betting the entire U.S. economy on the likes of Hillary and Obama makes sense to them now.

These jokers don’t even know what’s in their own self-interest, much less yours. Trusting them with your money is like trusting Bill Clinton to babysit your underage niece.

But I know someone you can trust to manage your investments — or rather, to help you do it yourself, without paying a nickel in commissions to some Wall Street frat boy.

His name is Dr. Mark Skousen — that’s “Dr.” as in “Ph.D. in Economics and Monetary History,” something you don’t get by playing Beer Pong with your frat buddies. For the past 28 years, subscribers to his investment newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, have profited enormously from his uncanny ability to predict major market trends before they happen — often while the Wall Street establishment is pointing investors the other way. For instance:

In the early ’80s, Dr. Skousen predicted that “Reaganomics will work” and said “a long decade of profits is coming.”
He issued a “sell everything” recommendation just 41 days before the stock market crash of 1987. Then he told investors to get fully invested again several weeks later, just in time for the recovery.
He called the Gulf War of 1990 “a turning point for U.S. stocks.” The Dow subsequently began a bull market that didn’t end for nearly ten years.
He told subscribers in 1995 that the NASDAQ would double, and then double again. That’s exactly what it did.
Just weeks before the NASDAQ collapsed in 2000, he warned subscribers that tech stocks were dangerously overvalued.
In 2007, he warned subscribers about the coming dollar crisis — and showed them how to protect themselves.

Personally, Dr. Skousen had me at “Reaganomics will work.” But it’s nice to
see — and nicer still for his legions of loyal Forecasts & Strategies subscribers — that he’s continued to call things right ever since.

What’s his secret? Well, if I knew, I’d be an investment advisor myself. But I think it begins with grasping the real laws of economics — not the warmed-over Marxism that today’s Wall Street frat boys imbibed with their warmed-over beer on the morning of their Econ 101 finals.

The “bottom line,” as they say? Don’t let Democrats run the country. And don’t let Wall Street frat boys manage your investments. Do it yourself, with the genuinely expert guidance of freedom-loving economist Mark Skousen in Forecasts & Strategies.

WARM REGARDS COMRADES!!!!!!

Ann Coulter

Revlon Back In Black

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Revlon Inc. reversed year-ago losses in the second quarter thanks in part to better sales from both its U.S. and international divisions.

Earnings for the three months totaled $19.9 million, or 4 cents a share, and compared with losses of $11.3 million, or 2 cents, a year ago. Sales for the quarter ended June 30 expanded 7.8 percent to $376.4 million from $349.2 million.

David Kennedy, president and chief executive officer, said the company would continue to focus on a laundry list of ?key drivers? including innovation, new products, brand communication and competitive levels of advertising.

Tory Burch is Looking For An Investor

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Tory Burch leathers up as she hunts for an investor earlier this year on the upper east side.

The hot apparel and accessories firm, which is estimated to generate as much as $200 million in wholesale volume annually, is shopping around a 30 percent stake in the New York-based business, according to sources.

The steep asking price ? a $935 million to $1 billion self-valuation for the whole company and about $300 million for the 30 percent stake ? has narrowed the field of investors down to two main bidders, TSG Consumer Partners and Bear Stearns Merchant Bank, said industry sources.

Art Chicks: Fine Art Floods Spring Looks

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Famed Photographers Sell Work On Line

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

(“Picture #3 — Guy Aroche)

As creative director of an advertising agency in Austria, Andrea Preiss worked with many photographers whose work she coveted, but the images remained elusive ? until technology intervened.

Sometimes she would drop a not-so-subtle hint, as she did at Arthur Elgort?s studio when she saw a photo she liked, and said, ?That?s nice, I?d love to have it.? There were instances when a photographer would give her a gift. Other times, Preiss would try to track down images by calling photographers? agents and galleries.

?It?s not very simple to buy these things when you travel and work a lot,? she said. ?The kind of things I want to collect do not really exist in galleries. [The photographers] may have had an exhibition and maybe have only one or two images left.?

Preiss thought there had to be a better way. An e-commerce site based in Vienna, photographerslimitededitions.com, is her solution. The site features the works of top lensmen such as Elgort, Guy Aroch, Marc Baptiste, Rankin, Bruno Bisang, Roxanne Lowit, Nigel Parry, Howard Schatz, Ben Watts, Timothy White and Christian Witkin. There are no more than 25 prints of each image.

Prices range from 1,000 euro, or $1,530, to 8,000 euro, or $12,240, based on the current exchange rate.

Elgort, whose work has been published in Vogue, Visionaire and Vanity Fair, contributed the photo, ?Lauren Hutton for Ultima Revlon? (silver gelatine print, 1975), which shows the model wearing a white fur coat and sitting on a park bench as Elgort, seated on the next bench, trains his lens on her.

?Fashion photography is getting more recognized as an art,? said Preiss, who has photos by David LaChapelle and Helmut Newton in her personal collection.

?I put all the nice photographers that I want to have in my collection together,? she said. ?The photographers liked the idea immediately. They said, ?We all work with the Internet and buy from the computer. Dealing with traditional galleries is a lot of work.??

Several photographers declined to participate, not because they didn?t like the concept, but because of time constraints. ?Steven Klein is doing so much new film work now,? Preiss said. ?He?s too busy.?

Besides fashion, Preiss is drawn to photographs of dancers, nudes and celebrity portraits. ?I?m looking for different styles of photography,? she said. ?I want to show the different kinds of styles and the big spectrum of artwork you can get.?

Preiss seeks to offer a range of price points. Guy Aroch?s ?Picture 3? (C-Print, 2006), which owes a debt to the cheesecake portraits of the Fifties, sells for 2,504 euros, or $3,930. ?Swimming Pool? (C-Print, 2005), Marc Baptiste?s photograph of a nude floating on her back amid swirls of blue water, is 7,512 euros, or $11,790.

Lowit?s ?Nan Kempner, Fran Stark and Jacqueline de Ribes, The Metropolitan Opera?s 100th anniversary in 1984? (silver gelatine print) captures the women looking like birds in full plumage. Kemper has a stem of orchids tucked into her hair while de Ribes? long neck is further accentuated by a tall updo. The price: 3,505 euros, or $5,502.

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There?s also Andreas H. Bitesnich?s stark, atmospheric architecture series of buildings in Paris and Egypt [silver gelatine prints, 1997], and New York [silver gelatine print, 1998], 3,505 euros, or $5,502 each. Rankin?s ?Kate Moss Explosions? (black-and-white archival lambda print, 1999), 3,250 euros, or $5,100, which shows the model wearing garters and stockings and nothing else.

?My second [project] will be to have a gallery,? Preiss said. ?Yesterday, I sold prints to people in Mexico and Prague. It?s so fantastic to offer something worldwide.?

Hilfigger opens kids store in Vegas

Monday, July 28th, 2008

NEW YORK ? Since relaunching its retail business in September 2000 with the first Tommy Hilfiger women?s-only store on Bleecker Street here, the designer has introduced several other retail concepts. Now comes the first children?s wear store, a 3,000-square-foot unit at 6659 Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas.

In addition, bowing in September on Collins Avenue in Miami?s South Beach will be a men?s and women?s sportswear shop with a garden in the back leading to a surf store in a separate building. Hilfiger also will open a 3,163-square- foot sportswear unit in the Aventura Mall in South Florida and a 3,868-square-foot store at Plaza...

Bijou Stretches Out

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Bijou Phillips stikes a yogic pose recently in LA, photographed by Tamerlane Phillips.

THE RETURN OF EARL JEANS

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Ebay prevails in counterfeit suit

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Fake brand names good from China, like this “North Face”light climbing parka, flooded ebay today upon the release of this breaking news.

A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled in favor of eBay in a trademark infringement lawsuit, casting aside claims brought against the online auction house by Tiffany & Co. that counterfeits of its goods are improperly being sold through the Web site.

The decision, entered by Judge Richard Sullivan at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, said that it is the trademark owner’s burden to police its mark. Tiffany, the ruling said, failed in its burden to prove claims that eBay was liable for trademark infringement and dilution, false advertising and unfair competition for facilitating the sale of counterfeit goods.

EBay argued that it is merely a service through which buyers and sellers connect and cannot be held responsible for counterfeit items because it never physically possesses them.

Kid Rock: "All Summer Long"

Saturday, July 12th, 2008