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Fabulous Nobodies
''Fabulous Nobodies'' is the first novel by Australian author and fashion journalist Lee Tulloch. It is described as a lighthearted yet devastatingly accurate social satire about the hip young fashion slaves of New York City's East Village, Manhattan, East Village in 1983.https://www.facebook.com/FabulousNobodiesTheMovie Book Summary The story revolves around the bubbly, fashion-obsessed Reality Nirvana Tuttle (nicknamed 'Really'), an impoverished youth who struggles to be a trendsetter (a "somebody") with the help of her sassy gay friend Freddie, her Audrey Hepburn-esque friend Phoebe, and her closet full of couture frocks, bold wigs, and kitschy 1980's accessories. Working as a coveted doorgirl at the exclusive Less is More nightclub, Reality sees it as her solemn duty to help the seething mass of "nobodies" determine what is "in" and what is "out", while she herself begs, borrows, and steals to reach the forefront of the ever-changing fashion wave. But Reality's iron-clad fa ...
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ...
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Lee Tulloch
Lee Ann Tulloch (born 12 January 1954) is an Australian-born journalist and author. Profile She was born in Melbourne, and has a degree in English literature from Melbourne University. She has worked as a researcher in federal politics. She was arts features editor for ''Vogue Australia'' from 1978 to 1982, and editor-in-chief of ''Harper's Bazaar Australia''. After moving to New York in 1985, she wrote her first novel, '' Fabulous Nobodies'', which was published in 1989. With her photographer husband, Anthony Amos, she chose a bohemian life, moving between Australia, New York and Paris for more than a decade with their young daughter, Lolita. In Paris, she began her second novel, ''Wraith'', a gothic tale of a dead supermodel who comes back to haunt her personal assistant. She completed it in New York and it was published in 1999. In 2001 she published her third novel, ''Two Shanes'', a comedy of errors about an Australian surfer in Manhattan. On 11 September 2001 she was evacua ...
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East Village, Manhattan
The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south. The East Village contains three subsections: Alphabet City, in reference to the single-letter-named avenues that are located to the east of First Avenue; Little Ukraine, near Second Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets; and the Bowery, located around the street of the same name. Initially the location of the present-day East Village was occupied by the Lenape Native Americans, and was then divided into plantations by Dutch settlers. During the early 19th century, the East Village contained many of the city's most opulent estates. By the middle of the century, it grew to include a large immigrant populationincluding what was once referred to as Manhattan's Little Germanyand was considered part of the nearby Lower East Side. By the late 1960s, many artists, ...
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Julie Anne Quay
Julie Anne Quay is an Australian businesswoman who is the minority of owner of Barnsley F.C. and founder of fashion platform VFiles. Career In 2017, she became minority owner of English football club Barnsley. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Quay, Julie Anne Australian businesspeople Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ...
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V (American Magazine)
''V'' is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film, music and art. A men's fashion quarterly entitled '' VMAN'' started as an offshoot in 2003. History ''V'' was launched in September 1999 as the "younger sibling" publication to the limited-edition quarterly ''Visionaire''. ''V'' releases six issues a year, one for each current seasonal collection; Spring, Spring/Summer, Summer, Fall Preview, Fall, and Winter. The magazine has a readership of 315,000 as of 2010. ''V'' is edited by Stephen Gan and features new global fashion displayed through shoots and editorials focusing more specifically on art, film, music and fashion. ''V'' has been noted for its inventive and progressive styling, as well as its reportage of cultural figures and global youth culture. Past contributors have included Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, and Karl Lagerfeld. Intervie ...
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Colac can refer to: * Colac, Victoria, a town in Australia **City of Colac, a former local-government area in Victoria, Australia **Shire of Colac, a former local-government area in Victoria, Australia **Shire of Colac Otway, a current local-government area in Victoria, Australia ** Colac Botanic Gardens, in Colac, Australia ** Colac railway station, in Colac, Australia * Lake Colac in Victoria, Australia * Colac (mountain), in the Italian Dolomites * Colac Bay, New Zealand * , a ship of the Royal Australian Navy * Kalach (food) Kolach or kalach is a traditional bread found in Central and Eastern European cuisines, commonly served during various ritual meals. The name originates from the Old Slavonic word ''kolo'' (коло) meaning "circle" or "wheel". Korovai is so ...
, spelled ''colac'' in Romania, traditional East Slavic bread, also common in Hungary, Romania, and Serbia {{disambig, geo ...
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The September Issue
''The September Issue'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by R.J. Cutler about the behind-the-scenes drama that follows editor-in-head Anna Wintour and her staff during the production of the September 2007 issue of American ''Vogue'' magazine. The film was released in Australia on August 20, 2009, after being screened at numerous film festivals including Sundance, Zurich, Silverdocs, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. It was released in select theaters in the United States on August 28, 2009, by Roadside Attractions. Synopsis The film revolves around the making of the ''Vogue'' September 2007 issue. (The September ''Vogue'' is traditionally the biggest, most important issue of the year.) It depicts the effort that goes into making the magazine, and the passion that Grace Coddington, a former model turned creative director and the only person who dares to stand up to Anna Wintour, has for the highly regarded fashion magazine. In the film, Coddington is often portrayed as the lea ...
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Anna Wintour
Dame Anna Wintour (; born 3 November 1949) is a British journalist based in New York City who has served as editor-in-Chief of ''Vogue'' since 1988 and Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast since 2020; she is also the artistic director of Condé Nast and the Global Editorial Director of ''Vogue''. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour has become an important figure in much of the fashion world, praised for her eye for emerging fashion trends. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour". Her father, Charles Wintour, Editor of the London ''Evening Standard'' (1959–1976), consulted with her on how to make the newspaper relevant to the youth of the era. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her career in fashion journalism began at two British magazines. Later, she moved to the US, with stints at ''New York'' and '' House & Garden''. She returned to London and was the editor of B ...
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1989 Australian Novels
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ...
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