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Kim Hee-sun, one of South Korea's top actresses, has unveiled a photo of her baby daughter through a Seoul-based fashion magazine.

Kim, 32, appears on the cover of the September issue of Marie Claire Korea, the South Korean edition of international magazine Marie Claire, with her daughter Yeon-a.

Kim, a hallyu (Korean wave) star who gave birth to her baby in January, had stopped short of showing any more than Yeon-a's hands and feet on her blog.

The cover featuring Kim and her daughter will also be used in other Asian Marie Claire editions, according to press reports. Kim married businessman Park Ju-young in October 2007 and has starred in numerous TV dramas with hallyu stars like Lee Dong-gun in ``Smile Again" (2006); Kwon Sang-woo and Yeon Jung-hoon in ``Sad Love Song" (2005); and Ryu Shi-won in ``Propose" (1997).

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African Arise Magazine made waves in the fashion world before it even hit the newstands in Africa and beyond with its soft launch in October last year and its sponsorship of an African Fashion Collective Show during the prestigious New York Fashion Week in February this year.

On its website, its editor-in-chief writes that “Africa has much to celebrate, contrary to what much of the international media would have you believe. Arise communicates the landmark successes that Africans and people of African descent have achieved in fields as varied as music, fashion, business and politics.”

In that spirit, in its fourth issue published this June, the magazine covered the Fashion for Peace event that was organised by Festival for African Fashion and Arts (FAFA). The event held back in March sought to provide a platform for East African fashion designers to showcase their work to the world.

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Even though editors finished their July issues months ago, this month feels like the lady mags are already enjoying their Summer Fridays by stickin’ with the usual tricks. This month features recession fashion (again) and a few celebs you haven’t thought about too much in the past year. Still, July and August are the months magazines were made for, so would you really want anything too serious?
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Becki Newton is on the cover of this “Everything under $100!” issue, which is filled with the normal mix of editors’ picks, 50 percent of which are rad, while the other half is eh. (A page on “fairy clothing,” however, is horrific.) Surprisingly good articles: “Blazers and Shorts” gives quick tips for rocking a great summer office look; and pp. 32-34, “The Webpages,” is a huge list of affordable online stores that I actually ripped out of the magazine to pin on my bulletin board full of passwords, reminders, and references. Grade: A-Vogue Dear Vogue: Why are your celeb profiles as painful to read as getting through part eight of Anna Karenina? July features Sienna Miller, who you momentarily consider becoming interested in again, until you realize you have four pages left and already you’ve learned nothing (she ate a pizza, she had a smoke). Apparently, Miller is starring in some G.I. Joe movie (oh God). Wintour’s attempt to battle the recession ("Steal of the Month!” coverline) comes in the form of a two-page spread of items under $400. Otherwise, worth a purchase to check out excellent cultural news stories on Katharine Weymouth, publisher of the Washington Post and review of Venice’s new modern museum (I wanna go!).

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As reported today in Thursday Styles (by yours truly), on August 26, Marvel Entertainment, the home of Spider-Man, will publish Models, Inc., a mini-series that unites the comic world’s most fashionable characters, including Millicent Collins, a.k.a. Millie the Model (born 1945), and Mary Jane (born 1965).

The model-turned-actress who toyed with the heart of Peter Parker (Spider-Man). The runway walkers team up when Millie is accused of murdering a young set designer during New York Fashion Week. (No actual set designer were hurt during the production of the comic; any resemblance to real life super-models is entirely coincidental.) Tim Gunn of “Project Runway” fame will also make an appearance.

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THE impact of the recession on fashion magazines has been severe, with some titles closing and others cutting back on staff and pages — or, in the case of Tar, a new indie arts biannual, half of Kate Moss’s face.

The magazine, which will release its second issue on April 15, will undoubtedly draw attention for a cover image created by the artist Damien Hirst. It shows Ms. Moss with her skin pulled back to expose the muscle tissue along one side of her face.

It is not the idealized cover image you might expect would help to sell a magazine, though the distortion is really not that different from the extreme retouching that routinely goes on at mainstream.

publications to make celebrities look “better,” only to make them look like aliens. (How many people recognized Reese Witherspoon on the cover of the April issue of Elle?)

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THE equation was simple. Put together women, jokes, beer, football and a hefty dose of irreverence, and you will hook men's eyeballs.This was the magic formula for men's magazines, spearheaded by the category called 'lad's mags'.Positioned between more staid fashion magazines and soft porn rags, the lad mag was unstoppable in the 1990s.

But now it seems the spell has been broken.On 24 Oct, SPH Magazines announced that Maxim would cease circulation. Its December issue would be its last.Earlier in July, NewMan also underwent an 'indefinite suspension'.And the financial health of Viscion Media, the magazine publisher behind newcomer Playeur, has also come into question as it faces several court cases for allegedly not paying wages and bills. Some of the cases have been settled.

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Magazines have plenty of issues nowadays--just the wrong kind. The Audit Bureau of Circulations added to their woes Monday with the release of its most recent report, covering the six-month period from January-June 2008, showing circulation falling sharply at a number of big titles, compared to the same period last year. Worse still, the news comes as ad pages are also declining steeply at many titles, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. The results are summarized in a chart below.

Per the ABC figures, several broad categories are seeing both circulation and ad pages drops--including newsweeklies, women's lifestyle and fashion, shelter and business titles. In each category, of course, there are exceptions. Holding up somewhat better were cooking and epicurean and men's lifestyle titles, while celebrity titles were distinctly mixed. Overall, however, the ABC and PIB figures will not have many champagne corks popping in publishers' executive suites.

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The sharp black suits, upswept chignons and click-clack of high heels could have been the opening steps of an Yves Saint Laurent fashion show. But instead of glossy red lips, there were red-rimmed eyes as the Parisian worlds of fashion, art and politics turned out to say farewell to the towering creative figure of 20th-century style.

The somber funeral Thursday in the Église Saint-Roch - a church dedicated to artists since Louis XIV laid the first stone - had splashes of red. Catherine Deneuve, fighting back tears as she arrived with a symbolic bouquet of wheat sheaves, was wearing the scarlet crystal heart that was a fetish object in every YSL collection for 40 years.

There were the red roses in the shape of a heart, labeled "Pierre" for Pierre Bergé - Saint Laurent's partner for 50 years. He gave a moving address, speaking tenderly to the coffin and recounting moments of love, anguish and pride that reduced the most sophisticated of Parisians to tears and raised an ovation from the crowds watching on a satellite screen outside.

Homage came from the mighty - President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla, a former model for YSL -and the humble: a button-sewer who clung to the barricades to catch a glimpse of the cortège.

But it was above all a reunion of a fashion family, who came together, as the actress Marisa Berenson said, recalling the 1970s, to remember "that whole period when we were young and everything was free."
"Yves was such an elegant person with such a gentle soul," Berenson said, explaining how the designer's first foray into fashion was with her grandmother, Elsa Schiaparelli.

Betty Catroux, with her slim, boyish figure the mirror image of her friend Yves, sat among the family. Saint Laurent's 95-year-old mother, Lucienne, walked stoutly down the aisle on her cane, supported by her daughters. Loulou de la Falaise, the free Bohemian spirit who was the creative counterpoint to Catroux's masculine rigor, hid under a chic black hat, while the actress Arielle Dombasle made her entrance with a giant Jackie Kennedy-style pill box.

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Francisco Costa, Tom Ford and Tory Burch were the big winners at Monday night's Council of Fashion Designer of America awards, the industry's top honor.

Costa, designer for Calvin Klein, was beckoned to the podium by actress Eva Mendes, who had presented the prize alongside Victoria Beckham and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Each seemed to be a cheerleader for her favorite designer Mendes in a sleek white gown for Costa, Beckham in a short, pouffy minidress for Marc Jacobs and Gyllenhaal in a green-and-black checkerboard tunic for Proenza Schouler.

"I sincerely appreciate all your help," Costa told the editors, stylists and retailers who for the second time voted him the best womenswear designer.

The CFDA awards, marking their 26th year, have come to be an intersection of celebrities and fashion insiders, causing a major traffic jam outside the landmark New York Public Library where the ceremony is held. Eva Longoria Parker, Tony Parker, Kim Cattrall, Mandy Moore, Lauren Hutton, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Hilary Duff were among those mingling with the likes of Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended but not as a guest. He received his own award from the CFDA Board of Directors for his commitment to keeping the city's garment industry thriving.

He mused about receiving an honor that in previous years has gone to Ford, Oleg Cassini and Bono. "Who would've thunk it?" he asked the crowd that had risen for a standing ovation.

Bloomberg, in a lilac-colored bow tie, also joked that he would have worn something more stylish, but "my skinny jeans are at the cleaners and my gladiator sandals are being resoled."

He then proudly reported that 800 fashion companies are based in New York, double that of its nearest competitor, Paris.

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At what point does a simple piece of fabric become a work of art?

The short answer is when it lands in the right hands, but the curators of a groundbreaking new exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts are conducting a deeper exploration of the question through the work of iconic French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

The show, which opens Thursday, seeks to blur, if not erase, the line between the worlds of commercial fashion design and high art.

"When a fashion designer approaches his creations, he has complete and total freedom. Isn't that what the artist's approach is all about?" says Florence Müller, a Paris-based fashion historian and design professor who is the exhibition's chief curator.

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