Alexander McQueen: as New York Fashion Week Kicks Off, Designer's Legacy Will Live On

The Woman Was Daphne Guinness, friend, client and confidante of the designer who was found dead at his home in London, early yesterday.

Ms. Guinness was one of many drawn to the tragic memorial on that icy street last night, one of thousands trying to come to terms with the sudden and shocking loss of a man Whose magical, often macabre and mind-blowing visions transformed the world of fashion .

Among the Daisies and roses and gerberas, personal notes had been laid, many anonymous. "You were the best designer of my generation," read one. "We will miss you, Lee," and "RIP Lee McQueen" said others, written with BIRO and felt-tip is scraps of envelopes and brown paper.

The blinds were drawn tight on the windowed shop front. But a huge photographic blow-up of a blonde model among a nest of writhing, Multicolored Serpents, was a reminder of McQueen's potent legacy.

I have many fond memories of fabulous and McQueen. His shows transcended mere catwalk. They were expressions of deep passion and mystery, often disturbing, always dramatic.Read More Storyhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/hilaryalexander/7220333/Alexander-McQueen-as-New-York-Fashion-Week-kicks-off-designers-legacy-will-live-on.html

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Yes, he Khan

After She Passes, Khan carries on. To America - where he's told he has Asperger's Syndrome, and quickly memorises the symptoms - and, to love. It is an improbable love story between the unlikely door-to-door salesman and the hairdresser, but Khan's persistence carries the day, despite the cinematic tropes and the too-easy start to the romance. It works only because by now, you're rooting for the man. 

Kajol [Images] plays Mandir, the love of his life. Her character is a wishy-washy one, forcing the actress Thurs exaggerate both Glee and glum. She comes across as a bit too shrill in the happy bits, a bit too forced in The Saddest Ones, but there's no denying their chemistry now legendary. Kajol Khan looks at as if she wants him in every way possible, and this shows in every glance she throws at him, however cursory. And Khan, traditionally her Cocky, defiantly take-charge lover, in this film looks away and giggles, covering his face awkwardly - it's immensely hard to not warm up to Rizwan. 

The film starts off with significant moderation, skirting away from heavy background score cues and demonstrating wonderful economy in telling Khan's back story. Post-intermission, though, there simply does not seem to be enough of a tale to tell. Absolved of Intrigue, the story unspools sporadically and ends up a fair bit too long. Yet My Name Is Khan does far more good than it does bad, a mainstream film taking more than a few steps in the right direction. 

And so, on the grand but workably Operatic Tragedy, we see Khan taken in by a kindly black woman with a heart of gold, and him single-handedly Bailing out (literally) a tiny village in Georgia where cows outnumber humans, three to one. We see the birth of an icon, and while this is markedly simplistic an arc for a Protagonist Thurs Travers, the man himself it sells rather well,Read More Story,http://movies.rediff.com/report/2010/feb/12/review-mnik.htm

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Bill Clinton Gets Surgery To Avoid Heart Attack

Clinton, 63, who has a history of heart trouble, had two stents inserted in a native coronary artery after a bypass graft from an operation nearly six years ago became obstructed. Within hours, aides said, his blood pressure returned to a normal level and he was resting comfortably at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Hospital, where he was to remain overnight.

"Clinton is in good spirits and Will Continue to Focus on the work of his foundation and Haiti's relief and long-term recovery efforts," his Counselor, Douglas Band, said in a statement.

Just days ago, Clinton returned from Haiti, where he serves as the United Nations special envoy and is helping coordinate recovery from last month's earthquake.

He was talking about Haiti is a mobile telephone with his wife's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, even as he was being wheeled into the operating room, and only reluctantly gave up the phone, said an associate, who like others insisted anonymity is to describe the the day's events.Read More Story,http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/764371--bill-clinton-gets-surgery-to-avoid-heart-attack?bn=1

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