THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY OCTOBER 7, 2013
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A model presents part of Vuitton's ready-to-wear Spring/Summer 2014 collection.
Marc Jacobs displays last Louis Vuitton line
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PARIS — What was likely designer Marc Jacobs' last ready-to-wear collection for Louis Vuitton looked like a show in mourning Wednesday — black, black and more black, a dark fountain and a nightmarish
carousel with inky horses were the backdrop for a universe of clothes all in black. Maid cleaned away dust from the steps of the disturbing set, which traced Jacobs' influential 16-year reign at Vuitton.
Shortly after the show at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the visual
metaphor was explained: French luxury conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced that Jacobs was stepping down as creative director of its flagship brand.
Jacobs, who is also the director of an eponymous brand, is one of the biggest names in the fashion industry. Under his tenure, Louis Vuitton became the most lucrative fashion house in the world, in part thanks to his creation of a ready-to-wear line.
LVMH, which owns the Louis Vuitton brand and an array of other luxury names purveying everything from jewelry to champagne, would not say who would replace Jacobs or what his next move would be. From her front-row seat, U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour gave Jacobs an ovation at Wednesday's show.
"Fashion needs rock stars, and they don't come any starrier than Marc at Louis Vuitton," she told The Associated Press in an email. "He has always understood that it a house about travel, and every season he has taken us on incredible journeys with his spectacular shows — shows that made Vuitton a global phenomenon but always brought you back to the heart of Paris"
you back to the heart of Paris. Such visible acclaim from the powerful editor — to whom he partly dedicated the show — is extremely rare.
On the Vuitton catwalk, models filed by in jet-black warrior-feathered headdresses as they displayed Jacobs' 41 designs. The pieces used embroidered black tulle stockings, Eisenhower jackets embellished with large feathered shoulders, dark embroideries, smoking jackets and some 1940s baggy blue jeans.
LITERATURE
Malala's new book describes recovery from Taliban attack
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LONDON — Seven days after the Pakistani Taliban shot her in the head, Malala Yousafzai wake up confused in a place that wasn't home. Her first thought? "Thank God I'm not dead."
Malala, whose campaign for girls' right to education made her a Taliban target, describes the shooting and its aftermath in a book that comes out Tuesday, a day before the anniversary of the assassination attempt.
In an excerpt in The Sunday Times, the now 16-year-old describes riding in a school van with her girlfriends when it was stopped by two men, including the gunman who shot Malala in the left eye socket at close range.
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Malala Yousafzai celebrates her birthday addressing young leaders who support the United Nation's Secretary General's Global Education First Initiative.
"I woke up on October 16, a week after the shooting," she writes. "The first thing I thought was, 'Thank God I'm not dead.' But I had no idea where I was. I knew I was not in my homeland. The nurses and doctors were speaking English though they all seemed to be from different countries."
She gradually found out that she had been taken from Pakistan to Birmingham, England, for specialist treatment.
Malala, who has been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced
Friday, also describes her amazement at finding out that some 8,000 people had sent messages of support to the hospital.
"Rehanna, the Muslim chap-lain, said millions of people and children around the world had supported me and prayed for me," Malala writes. "Then I realized
that people had spared my life.
I had been spared for a reason.
I realized that what the Taliban
had done was make my campaign
global."
The book is titled "I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban."