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If Marc builds it, they will come. The contemporary artist/fashion label complex, that is, which Jacobs sent to new heights with his accessory collaborations with Louis Vuitton. Yes, artists and designers had collaborated before—including Dalí and Schiaparelli way back when—but the runaway success of Louis Vuitton’s Murakami bags (and the follow-up Richard Prince “joke” bags) has given contemporary artists a new form to play with and, just as importantly, a new revenue stream. The latest is the conceptual art star Jenny Holzer, who’s teaming up with Keds to create kicks this summer. (Artist’s canvas, taken literally.) The high-top and low-top styles are emblazoned with PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a phrase from Holzer’s text series Survival. They’ll be available online and at select Bloomingdale’s locations in July. The footwear brand is giving back to the art world, too: Keds is sponsoring the Whitney’s summer season.
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PLUS: Click below for a few of our favorite recent art/fashion collabs.

The late Robert Mapplethorpe (and the Mapplethorpe Foundation) for Chloé Sevigny for O.C., Resort 2011 tees

Scott Campbell for Louis Vuitton menswear, Spring 2011 tattoos (Campbell also created two collaborative bags for the Spring ‘11 menswear collection)

The late Tsuguharu Foujitas with Raf Simons for Jil Sander menswear, Spring 2010 shirts, pants, and knits

Rosson Crow for Zac Posen, Spring 2010 dresses

Peter Doig (among others) for the Art Production Fund, Target,wholesale Juicy Couture Bags, and Standard Hotels for their Artist Towel Series towel, 2009

Photos: Courtesy of Keds (Keds); Marcio Madeira (Zac Posen; Jil Sander); KT Auletta/Courtesy of Opening Ceremony (Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony); Gianni Pucci/GoRunway.com (Louis Vuitton); Art Production Fund (towel)

Christopher Kane cruises into winter with a grungy collection perfect for a woman off to a dirty downtown soirée.

Christopher Kane autumn/winter 2012. Photo: Reuters
London Fashion Week: Christopher Kane autumn/winter 2012
BY Luke Leitch | 20 February 2012

Last season it was bejewelled beach sandals, slashed dresses and beautiful metallic florals. So for winter Christopher Kane followed his yen for something rougher: “I’ve always wanted to do something dirty, grungy, rocky,” he said: “It was that girl walking into a nightclub in a total downtown, dirty little place. It was dirty.”

In pics: Highlights from the Christopher Kane collection

Soundtracked to music from the Al Pacino movie Cruising , Kane’s grungy winter girl started in wide, thickly pinstriped leather skirts jackets and dresses and one pinstripe mink. Then, via some lilac and purple leopard skin (“so wrong it’s good”), came a series of moiré dresses, their hologram sheen glowing a sickly blood red, royal blue and violet. These were bordered with pipes of wadded black leather used to create boxy front panels or knotted, X-shaped shoulder strapping. This black-bordering – very small-town nightclub banquette – was further deployed in dresses centred with grids of black “chainmail” squares through which was woven Scooby-Do colourful plastic wire (also used over cashmere jumpers).

In pics: stars at the shows

There was a quilted jacket or two (this season’s beach sandal?) and some grey denim at the end. Kane always revels in the technical details of finding new materials to play with – and that moiré was new. This time however he seemed just as taken with his visualisation of the disturbed, imperturbable women he imagined wearing these clothes as he sketched them,Discount Boss, listening to that Cruising soundtrack.

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He said: “I always think of moiré as being on the inside of a coffin. And that’s why I like it. Deathly: she’s on a mission. You think of girl in that moire dress. Super-clean, with that great eye-brow: nothing else. She’s not even caring if she bumps into anyone. She could stand all night by herself and feel dead cool. She’s a voyeur.”

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With his Spring ‘09 menswear collection, Alexander McQueen helped kick-start a trend for skulls and skeletons. (Ed Hardy and Christian Audigier kept skulls top of mind for those tracking a different fashion demographic.) And then, as with all gluts, it seemed that the moment had passed—we’d seen just one memento mori too many. Who needed to be reminded, after all?

But it looks like we called it too early. Bones are back, baby—and not just on scrawny models. (Hold the jokes and the harangues, please.) At the Couture shows, Riccardo Tisci was thinking of “a romantic way to see death”—hence the bone-shaped zipper pulls,wholesale Christian Louboutin Shoes, the skeletal jewelry, a tiny skull nestled in the back of a satin jacket (left; check out our slideshow for a closer look). Jean Paul Gaultier was on the same page. He spoke of a bare-bones approach to couture, and then, the final look: Dita Von Teese in a barely-there corset resembling nothing so much as a glittering ribcage. For a gala of ghouls, you could pair it with Dsquared²’s spinal-column heels from Fall ‘10—or, for a little more coverage, one of the skull instarsia knits from Lucien Pellat-Finet, whom you might call the elder statesman of the trend. He’s been playing with skulls for more than a decade.

At her Paris men’s shows, Rei Kawakubo dedicated nearly her entire collection for Comme des Garçons to the theme. Skull-laden lads (with heads painted to suggest the craniums beneath) wore suits, shirts, shoes, and even dresses printed with the motif. And from the arena of pop—literally—Lady Gaga had her finger on the (undead) pulse last night for her first-ever show at Madison Square Garden. She donned a bone-fingered glove during one of her many costume changes.

Skeletons—back into the closet? Click here for our slideshow of bony looks.

—Matthew Schneier

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(Reuters) Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) posted a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit driven by strong subscriber additions, though it was tempered by weak performances at its NBC Universal broadcast and movie units.

Shares were up 5 percent in morning trading on Wednesday, hitting a new 52-week high, as the company also announced a 44 percent increase in its quarterly dividend and a new $6.5 billion share buyback.

The leading U.S. cable TV provider added 336,000 Internet subscribers and lost just 17,000 video customers — its best quarterly video numbers in five years.

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“I really believe these improvements are sustainable because they are the result of our scale and our intensified focus on service and innovation,” said Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts on a conference call with analysts.

U.S. cable companies have been losing traditional video subscribers at an increasing rate over the last five years and have been relying mainly on Internet and phone additions for subscriber growth. The cable industry has been hit by a triple whammy of a weak housing market, stiffer competition from satellite TV and phone companies and cheaper entertainment alternatives from Web video services like Netflix Inc (NFLX.O).

Cable executives have disputed that they are losing customers to online video services in a phenomenon known as “cord-cutting,” which is expected to see new entrants from Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Google Inc (GOOG.O). Comcast and Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N) have led a push to expand their programming agreements to include Web access so customers can see their shows wherever they are, and on most devices.

“We may not get back to full growth in video for a while because we don’t see housing growth, but someday that’s going to happen,” said Roberts.

Comcast also added 146,000 phone customers, below Collins Stewart’s forecast of 170,000 additions.

“I thought these were pretty strong results,” said Collins Stewart analyst Thomas Eagan. “They could possibly grow video subscribers in the current quarter. We think this reflects better overall execution across the cable business.”

Comcast, which took control of NBC Universal a year ago, said strong cash flow growth at its cable networks was offset by a weaker performance at the NBC broadcast business and its Universal studio.

Cable networks, including USA, Bravo and E!, saw operating cash flow jump 16.2 percent to $930 million, but NBC cash flow turned negative at $52 million. Universal’s operating cash flow nearly halved to $91 million. The theme park business posted flat operating cash flow performance at $191 million.

Comcast is doing well in spite of NBC Universal’s weaker performance, said Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett in a note to clients.

“Comcast remains a distribution company, not a media company, and by a huge margin. NBCU, in other words, just needs to stay out of the way.”

Fourth-quarter net income rose to $1.29 billion, or 47 cents a share from $1.02 billion, or 36 cents a share, a year before.

Analysts had on average forecast profit of 41 cents per share, according to a poll by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Revenue rose 3 percent to $15 billion.

The cable company raised its dividend by 44 percent to 16.25 cents a quarter, or 65 cents a year, and announced a new share buyback program of $6.5 billion, with a pledge to spend $3 billion in 2012. Analysts said they had been expecting Comcast to buy back around $3.5 billion in stock in 2012.

Comcast is the latest media company to announce a major buyback and dividend increase at the start of the year. Viacom Inc (VIAB.O), Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) and Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) all have put more focus on returning cash to shareholders for 2012 rather than on major acquisitions or capital intensive projects.

Comcast shares rose by $1.36 to $28.61 in late-morning trade on Nasdaq.

(Reporting By Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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James Lima has been on fashion’s speed dial lately. He just finished shooting Ana Beatriz Barros and her exploding Amazona bag for Loewe, and today Ermenegildo Zegna tapped the Hollywood effects guru—a veteran of “Avatar”—to direct the label’s new show in “live-D.” Zegna celebrates twenty years of its business in China,wholesale G-Star jeans, and, like many brands, it’s pitching hard to the Asian customer. Hence, “In the Mood for China,” with the models—many of them Asian—seen ambling along the Great Wall on a giant screen before wending their way out onto the catwalk. How? Courtesy of a green-screen room concealed behind the set. (The technology will come to Zegna’s e-commerce site down the line.) Olivia Palermo and boyfriend Johannes Huebl were seated front row to check it all out, he dressed nattily in Zegna. The whole show was enough to send you to your travel agent demanding a seat on Mandarin Air, but as it happens, Palermo is directing her trail elsewhere; she heads to Doha tonight.

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I love the way Nicole Richie dresses. Shes always the first celeb to work a trend, and she knows how to make it her own. Case in point: denim shorts with dark tights, which is one of her go-to ensembles.

To be honest, unless you’re long and lean, this isn’t an easy look to pull off. The key is to choose the right colors and proportions. Steer clear of daisy duke shorts in a light wash and choose a longer style in a medium or dark rinse. Pull on a pair of opaque tights in a slimming shade such as black, gray, or navy and go for sexy suede pumps or tall sleek boots in a similar color. The less contrast, the thinner you’ll look so stick to a monochromatic effect.

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American Eagle and H&M are showing inexpensive denim cutoffs in their pre spring lines, but I’m especially loving the Gap’s cuffed version, which comes in sizes 4-18 ($24.50, gap.com).

By Sasha Charnin Morrison for UsMagazine.com. To read more of the Recessionista blog, click here.