Charlie Rose

chawlydollylama  02/26/2012 09:43 AM Report

I like the 'Bride of Frankenstein' one. She looks like she could appreciate a man like me.

finalfantasytown  02/21/2012 03:33 AM Report

I dream to live in the 'comfortable zoo' although realization of the dream is very far from current situation, partly because of population and human rights. The paradise which provides fruits and insects for food in the forest, I think, can be the answer to the question 'how to solve those problems'. Major fruits and minor insects as recipe. Then, it is time to try a zoo and earn it.

Gelles  02/20/2012 03:05 PM Report

instead of taxes TO power the economy

This FORM of capitalism, with plenty of capital, is ...

[above typos, again my fault, would be corrected if this Charlie Rose software allowed time for post-send edit. Why is it not included? Because CR is mean.

Gelles  02/20/2012 02:56 PM Report

Very high fashion at a very high price is a good partner for a monetary system of production that uses savings instead of taxes power the economy. The trick is to pump debt-free fiat money, from bank accounts -- preferably -- not anonymous paper money, into the holdings of people not already rich. This keeps the system open to constant purchases and production of the necessities of life.

When hyperinflation is the enemy of the people, spending money on fashion, travel and entertainment, tends to absorb excess money far more sensibly than taxation.

Entrepreneurs for profit or for doing-good will then have lots of money for investment IF they chose to save not spend.

This for of capitalism with plenty of capital is what we are missing. We miss tenure for the rich to make them obey noblesse oblige. We miss good jobs for everyone -- enhancing the output of average workers with machine-produced necessities. We labor with lower wages than we need and higher taxes than are good for us. We have an economy suited to two-hundred years ago (maybe). Today that economy is a tragedy -- it has ruined millions of lives because the average voter is a dunce, and that includes rich and poor voters -- all of them but not me.

Gelles  02/20/2012 02:32 PM Report

[Wikipedia continued:]

... in 2010, Diane von Furstenberg was awarded a Gold Medal at the annual Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Gold Medal Gala.

Philanthropy:

Diane von Furstenberg is a Director of The Diller–von- Furstenberg Family Foundation, a private foundation that provides philanthropic support to 501(c)3 non-profit organizations within the following sectors: Community Building, Education, Human Rights, Arts, Health and the Environment.

In 2010, Diane created The DVF Awards, which are presented annually to four women who display leadership, strength, and courage in their commitment to women’s causes. Supported by The Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation, recipients are each granted $50,000 to further their work.

In 2011, The Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation made a $20 million commitment to the High Line, which is the largest single private contribution to a public park in New York City’s history. The Diller–von Furstenberg family has donated a total of $35 million to the High Line to date.

Diane von Furstenberg sits on the board of Vital Voices, a women’s leadership organization that empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the world.

Diane is also an honorary director of the Housatonic Valley Association.

[end extracts from Wikipedia -- whose source is linked below]

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Wow. This is a leader in the fashion industry and in New York City.

Is fashion more art than business? Is it more business than art? You decide for yourself. I believe its half art and half business. Fashion, i.e., "adornment" -- including paint and piercings, is known among savage people who exist without the advertising that is its partner in our time and place. While other animals live without clothing, human beings do not. The naked beauty of human bodies is always covered for modesty's sake -- if not the climate. So if we prefer naked to fashion, we have to live in a comfortable zoo. (I don't think there is one.)

Is expensive fashion necessary? Not in my opinion. Affordable fashion, however, short of too much paint and piercing, is OK by me. I often look in the mirror IF IT IS THERE.

I like very comfortable, functional, affordable fashion. Who doesn't? What is my complaint? Too many elements of dress are not functionally necessary. I hope one day there will be more variety in men's ware -- such that what I ware will be nearly stain proof, light in weight, itch-free, colored to compliment my natural look, and otherwise designed by design and not mostly by accidental legacy.

Gelles  02/20/2012 02:03 PM Report

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_von_F%C3%BCrstenberg

Link to copied information -- above

Gelles  02/20/2012 01:59 PM Report

[We have a well educated lady -- more to come]

From Wikipedia:

Marriages:

Diane von Fürstenberg [picture is shown on Wikipedia] with her husband Barry Diller at the 2009 Metropolitan Opera premiere.

At university, when she was 18, she met Prince Egon of Fürstenberg, the elder son of a German prince and his first wife, an heiress to the Fiat automotive fortune. Married in 1969, the couple had two children, Prince Alexander (born six months after their wedding) and Princess Tatiana, who were born in New York City. She is now the grandmother of three children. The Fürstenbergs' marriage, though not popular with the groom's family because of the bride's Jewish ethnicity, was considered dynastic, and on her marriage Diane became Princess Diane of Fürstenberg, but is no longer entitled to use the title following her divorce and then her remarriage in 2001.

In 2001, she married American media mogul Barry Diller, with whom she had been involved, off and on, since the 1970s. In 2002, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Career:

Diane von Fürstenberg [picture shown in Wikipedia] during New York Fashion Week.

In 1970, with a $30,000 investment, she began designing women's clothes -- "The minute I knew I was about to be Egon's wife, I decided to have a career. I wanted to be someone of my own, and not just a plain little girl who got married beyond her desserts." (Her former husband also became a fashion designer in 1974.)

She is best known for introducing the knitted jersey "wrap dress" in 1973, an example of which, due to its influence on women's fashion, is in the collection of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1985 she moved to Paris, France where she founded Salvy, a French-language publishing house. Diane Fürstenberg has started a number of other businesses including a line of cosmetics and a home-shopping business which she started in 1991.

In 2005, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awarded her a lifetime achievement award and the following year named her as their president. ...

Professionally and personally, she uses von with her surname instead of the usual zu used by the House of Fürstenberg (the latter term is rarely encountered outside of Europe). As her advertising campaigns and company letterhead indicate, she also prefers to spell her surname with no umlaut. Earlier in her career however, until the late 1990s, her company's labels included either an umlaut or a squiggle in its place.

In 2009, a large scale retrospective exhibition entitled "Diane von Furstenberg: Journey of a Dress" opened at the Manezh, one of Moscow's largest public exhibition spaces. The show was curated by Andre Leon Talley and attracted a lot of media attention.

Also since 2009 she has been president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, based in New York City and instrumental in mentoring new talent in the industry.

[to be continued]

Gelles  02/20/2012 01:40 PM Report

Diane Von Furstenberg ~

From Wikipedia:

Diane Simone Michelle Halfin was born in Brussels, Belgium. Her father was Romanian-born Leon (Lipa) Halfin, who immigrated to Belgium from Chi?in?u (then Bessarabia province of Romania and now the capital of Moldova) in 1929. Her mother was Greek-born Liliane Nahmias, a Holocaust survivor. She [Diane our interviewee] studied economics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

[We have a well educated -- more to come]

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/19/2012 02:48 AM Report

“A woman is a woman.” Profound.

Please read "Walden Two" and see how this Utopian society treats fashion.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/19/2012 02:44 AM Report

'Everyone blogs you, everyone is an editor.'

Yes, if you are good enough and people care.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/19/2012 02:43 AM Report

Yes those big shoulders in the 80s—what was that?

And that hair with the big curl--what is that?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/19/2012 02:42 AM Report

A "river of imagination"?

Well it sounds good but watch Joan Rivers and her team police the Grammys and you might change your mind.

finalfantasytown  02/19/2012 02:18 AM Report

Feminism...

Each time when I am thinking of what Hades has done, I am driven to be crazy. He kidnaps Persephone. No human rights! Save her out and never back to Hades.

finalfantasytown  02/19/2012 01:47 AM Report

laughing... I notice Charlie's facial expression at beginning of this interview.

I don't care what clothing I wear. I prefer to be naked. And it is difficult to understand why women like cloths. I am interested in if there is fashion in lion society in Africa. No strips, no flower motifs, or even no single dot on their skins.

sugar  02/18/2012 07:58 AM Report

Poor Charlie, he had a challenge in attempting to make those 3 women interesting. Suzy Menkes as fashionista? She looks - and sounds - like a cartoon character. Daphne is a made-celebrity (a la Paris Hilton) without any talent except filling time with expenditure of huge amounts of money, then trying to convince the public the resultant product is "art" by calling it an exhibition. Diane is the only one of the 3 who could easily have filled Charlie's whole hour on her own, providing an intelligent, interesting subject that he would have had a great time interviewing as she enlightened your viewers with her observations and opinions (unlike the other 2 guests on this program ). If Charlie wants a true expert on fashion to interview, he should invite Bill Cunningham of New York Times as a guest (I can hardly wait).

DiamondMind  02/17/2012 03:28 PM Report

This video just proves how much of a racist, xenophobic and classist bitch that Suzy Menkes has proved to be at every turn. "How cute, the ASIANS are designing. Fashion is for poor people now, too? How luxuriously hilarious!"

finalfantasytown  02/17/2012 07:55 AM Report

It is a good question that how to define fashion. It let me remember Richard Serra in Brain Series. I understand fashion through his art work exhibition and study on the reactions from subjects' experiences through his work.

I think Diane controlled by Hera and make a living for Hestia.

pmichelen  02/16/2012 12:22 PM Report

If the emergence of shoulder pads in the 80's represented the rise of feminism, as Suzy Menkes suggested, then what does the emergence of decolletage in the last two decades represent?

REMant  02/16/2012 11:26 AM Report

I think this must be one of those times in American history when it must be fashionable to be unfashionable, tho I suppose a sizable number of viewers wouldn't agree. Even before 2008 fashion seemed to be going the way of 1960's: a collection of found objects, the bizarrer, the better. And bell-bottoms, too. I can see why Furstenberg's creations became popular, but I think they look good on very few women, and the patterns quickly tire, like Scandinavian bedspreads. Glamour is clearly romantic and feminists are supposed to have no truck with that, which, it would seem, should cast doubt either on the romance or on the feminism, unless, of course, they share a absence of simple modesty.