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Melania Trump is proving to the fashion designers who said they wouldn’t help her that dressing well is the best revenge. The first lady’s trip to Saudi Arabia, the Vatican, Belgium and Sicily — wearing mostly Dolce & Gabbana — was a fashion tour de force that has forced many naysayers in the rag trade to rethink. The list of designers who said they wouldn’t dress Melania is long, led by Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, Christian Siriano and Sophie Theallet. But Melania has managed to look smashing in dozens of different ensembles, from her white Ralph Lauren jumpsuit...

With a white mop of hair, crisp button-down shirt and tie, fake eyelashes aside, Marc Jacobs is transformed into fabled pop art Andy Warhol in Interview magazine’s June-July double issue.

June 4, 2004 Store for Designer Clothing Displays Political LeaningsBy RUTH LA FERLA iz Ehrlich stood transfixed at the window of the Marc by Marc Jacobs store on Bleecker Street on Wednesday. Instead of a tableau of flirty spring dresses and chic round-toed pumps, it displayed a 2-foot-by-3-foot cardboard ace of spades with the image of President Bush.Beneath that was a caption with the words, "I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president." The longer she stared, the more...

Officials at the New York based Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees Unite said they faced 'a vicious anti union campaign' last autumn' when they tried to unionize the Los Angeles plant of American Apparel, manufacturer of the Marc Jacobs/Hillary Clinton T-shirts.Unite spokesperson on Hillary Clinton, 'She should use a company that respects workers rights to organize.'They complained that American Apparel was 'dining out on a reputation for social conciousness that was ill deserved.'American Apparel had just settled a union busting complaint last week Unite has made to the National Labor Relations Board.American Apparel senior partner Dov Charney said...