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A compilation of Simon Says Fashion Do's and Don'ts Videos.

John Varvatos, the Detroit-born-and-bred men’s wear designer known for both his clothes and creams, has just been named GQ’s “Designer of the Year.” Mr. Varvatos will join 19 other gents, politicos, dandies and jocks in the book’s December issue, marking its 12th annual “Men of the Year” rundown.

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In this week’s Observer, our very own Simon Doonan writes about how he was strongly encouraged by Barneys brass to lend the store’s holiday windows a “green” theme. But after style bloggers at Fashionista gave the street-facing displays the old once-over, they apparently became concerned about all the blinking lights, which, as they put it, “seem to suck energy the way we devour Skittles.”

“I don't know the specifics on how much energy the windows use," Julie Gilhart, fashion director at the store, told the blog at a Calvin Klein party last night. "But of course we use electricity, we use energy—but nobody can decide to go totally green overnight. It's a process. We're making a huge effort to be as green as possible, and to spread awareness to our community so they can start making adjustments, too. And we're really proud and excited about that... isn't the reindeer fun?"

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I’m Sorry for the Super Jews   To the Editor:    read more »

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We're peeling ourselves off the sticky floor over here to head off for a week of vacation. Don't be sad! Today's double issue is crammed full of enough stuff to keep you occupied on the crapper for the next two weeks.

First-year banking boys enjoyed their coke-snorting, hot-dog-eating summers just fine; L.A. sucks and Lindsay Lohan will go for a sister's neck; The Martignetti brothers, of the LES's Martignetti Liquors, are opening a restaurant; there are young policy wonk intellects!; and Dustin Hoffman is a playa.

There's the closing of the Stonewall bar (attracting "wrong," "urban" element say (cough! white!) neighbors. Who are those Anthropologie-shopping gals? Brian Williams, the last old man of TV news, wants you to touch his Peabody.The vaunted Trend Piece may be as dead as a dodo. Hey, we sneaked a Black Panther onto the front page! In movies, there's Half Nelson and Leopold's Ghost and 13 and Snakes and Idlewild. Simon Doonan recaps his homosexualist summer; Tortoise still post-rocks; Neil Sedaka sold off part of his apartment and Elizabeth Lindemann bought a $10-mil bachelorette pad, and there's a scheme for an idealist fantasy of New York. And what a heap of Iraq books!

There's Tennis! And tennis! And tennis! And tennis! And tennis! Do you like tennis?

There's our extremely self-referential comic strip. There's Christine Quinn and Malachy McCourt and the DNC and reports from Jerusalem and Beirut.

Don't ever forget there's someone for everyone. And two more words: Yacht Rock.

Flab-ulous!

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Honor Thy Writer of Talese

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Letters That No Longer Spell Trouble   To the Editor:    read more »

Let’s Not Be Hasty   To the Editor:    read more »

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Like a verdant interval at Yaddo or a sepulchral black-and-white author photo by Marion Ettlinger, a  read more »

Former Barneys Home to Enter Next Life As Himalayan Art MuseumAndy Warhol, who used to dress the win  read more »

Simon Doonan is taking this week off so that he can prepare the Barneys (his daytime employer) holid  read more »

What are the most wanted holiday presents for 1998?  read more »