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• Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:03 AM

  I think there probably is a Hilton-related story to be written about the "death throes" of the luxury brands ...

  and their apparent desperate willingness to prostitute themselves in a pathetic attempt at rejuvenation ...

  Yesterday's NYT reported that the major clothing labels are facing breakneck competition from celebrity labels, which is reminiscent of the complaints of the major modeling houses for the last decade or more that celebrities are taking more and more of the fashion covers and pages and the "grand tradition" of elite models was being swept into the dustbin ... (this is true ... consider Elizabeth Hurley, seemingly one of the last top models, being replaced by Gwenyth Paltrow ... Catherine Deneuve being in a whole other class).

  It's not something to keep one awake nights. When I first saw Hilton I thought she was a faux-Hilton, like that faux-Rothchilds flim-flam man, and that she would quickly be revealed to be both a "con" and a transvestite/transexual (the hardness of her sheen is so unfeminine) ... too bad Paris has zero sense of humor. She might have found both a niche and some affection ... she's a shrewish racist ... and her sponsors don't care.

  The problem with cable television and ALL the myriad media outlets is that they DESPERATE to find CONTENT to frame with advertising revenue.

  500 channels and nothing's on.

  —susan sunflower Read susan sunflower's other letters
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