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>> Jean Touitou's buffalo-checked and croc-loafered Fall 2011 APC collection just hit the label's website, and we've got the lookbook, complete with a close-up look at accessories and a couple of Venetia Scott-shot ads featuring Aline Weber.
>> Don't expect to see an APC show on any Fashion Week schedule — last night, the brand's opinionated founder Jean Touitou explained why: "I'm sorry to say there's too much corruption involved in Fashion Week. I won't take part in it. My days are very full doing what I'm doing. I don't want to deal with model agencies. Power conversations with model bookers makes me sick. Those people, they talk to you as if you've known them for 40 years, but you don't know them at all." Plus, he says: "I do not belong to celebrity culture. If people only knew what actresses are paid to sit in the front row at the shows in Milan or Paris, they would want to kill somebody. If they only knew 10 percent of what's going on, like brands that give bags away to young actresses and tell them to go in that restaurant on that day and leave the restaurant at 15 past 2:00, and hold the bag up for the paparazzi that will be there. This is a fact." He gives Chanel as an example of this practice: "If you're a young actress, it's now expected that once you start making it you'll receive a bag from Chanel. It's become a rite of passage. And it works, it's huge publicity for them. But at some point what's sad about it is that the very famous Chanel bag 2.55 — which I really love, my grandmother had one and my mother had one — is all over the place. I can't look at them anymore." [Hint]
In San Francisco, picking the perfect preschool is a piece of cake. Getting into it is a different ball game. With stiff competition and high prices, it's enough to make you want to start your own school.
That's exactly what celebrated A.P.C. designer Jean Touitou did in Paris. Unwilling to enroll his daughter, Lily, 3, into the state–run preschools, he was also opposed to Catholic or Jewish schools as he and his wife have varying religions. So to solve the dilemma. he opened a new nursery school called Ateliers de la Petite Enfance (A.P.E.)
To learn more about the fledgling school, read more
