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Controversy
"making a statement."
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Louis DiCarlo
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What we saw at The Louis DeCarlo Winter
2000 / 2001 Fashion Show Presentation was -in fact- the Heritage of all civilization and some hot designs marking The Future: right in front of your eyes. We actually had the chance to see all this. Now here is the story. Getting settled into the shows have a bit of madness to it. Everyone does what they need to and at the end you reunite with your team. A group of seasoned editors and photographers met outside The Studio Tent to go to the next shows. Walking toward the Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) an Editor, let's call her Joan, had what to say about The Louis DiCarlo Show. Of course it was "the Controvesy." How dare he use "Fur" ... "real fur" ... "real skins." |
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As we walked about 100 meters we all
listened to Joan spill out the song and dance of the PetaFile people. Fear and terroristic brainwashing tactics. Oh the modern times. We can do better. Yeah, we can ignore all that Nature gave us and taught us, we can dishonor that, and go make plastic cups that hang around to damage the environment for the next 10,000 years. I said to Joan exactly that and do not get me wrong. There are many impotant issues regarding Fur and
the way laboratory animals are treated.
Many important issues which we are very sensitive to. But that is still another story. Which we hope to get to later down the road. This was more about "Honoring Our Heritage" and great fashion. Nothing more. See. I have a problem with the P.E.T.A. people, their willingness to harm people, their lies, hypocrisies, and motivation. Plus they say don't drink milk. But it's a Natural. A month prior I came upon PETA people one evening picketing a store on West 57th Street. When I questioned why they were picketing a store that sold Furs and Leather while they themselves were standing there wearing "leather shoes and leather belts" they stopped picketing the store and ran away fast. It makes for a good picture. |
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In the middle of the week Joan came over to our table in
the lobby fountain area. She said to us, "I am proud to know you. I thought about everything you said. You were right. It is about our Heritage and where we come from." In November 2000, I was talking with Jessica and I told her I thought it was funny how in each issue of The 2000 Series Totally Cool ® featured a little something from Mr. DiCarlo but he kept moving forward in the book from issue to issue. In the Autumn Issue Fashion Well his creation opened that section. The path was saying, What better look could say this is what it was like "in Time." A thousand years gone by, a thousand years to come. As a Cover it would say "we are in the middle of it all. Winter 2001." And this came out of
it. When we reached making final decisions Totally Cool ®
had 4 days to put The Photo Shoot together. (The Cover. The Photo Shoot. The Controversy.) Some magical way
the pieces fell in to place for what Nature wanted to say.
"You are. The New Millennium." Remember the Past. So there you have it. From The Beginning ... |
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Oh ... and there is one other issue at hand. America is
supposed to be a free Country (supposed to be). NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL ME NOR YOU WHAT TO WEAR. No one has the right to. It is our own choice. For whatever reasons. And surely a freedom of expression. Also no one has the right to tell your grandmothers they should be afraid to wear their fur because someone from PETA will throw paint on it. The anti-fur activist group P.E.T.A. has a "13 million dollar" annual budget. That is what they "have to protect." They pay their activists to protest. They scare people into giving them money. "Paid activists" who "Hurt People" are not activist. They are ... "social terrorists." Activists do not need to be paid. They do it from the Heart. So all this considered is what I said to Joan. Don't trash our Heritage and History. It has gotten us this far. And -- do not trash Louis DiCarlo. He did a beautiful production for all the people. We see. A few days later, February 9th, 2000 at the "7th on Sixth" worldwide fashion collections
two P.E.T.A. people stepped onto the Oscar de la Renta
runway. The Fashion World made a statement also. After 20 years of terrorism a Lensman took P.E.T.A down "in
12 seconds" and said: "Do It Outside." The PETA People
were arrested: and taken to Jail. |
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photo by Richard Renda
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photo by Richard Renda ToTaLLy CoOL ®
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photo by Alberto Rizzo
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More coming ...
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The Word Has It 2002 Is
"Intense." 7th Avenue New York
Fashion Designer Louis DiCarlo's Mondi Collection is something men and women
want to Look at. If you can
remember what the front Cover
of The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band" album looked like, and you took four giant steps forward from there -- that is only some of the chicness The Mondi 2002 Collection has.
Keep Looking.
Keep Looking good.
Keep Lookng Totally Cool ® !
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The Louis DiCarlo Controversy Story
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