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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 12 February 2019
Longchamp's woman takes a NY Fashion Week trip to Paris

By MORGAN EVANS they are very strong," she
NEW YORK (AP) — Mod- said.
els Kendall Jenner and Liu Emma Roberts also sat front
Wen took a break from the row.
catwalk to sit front row for "Well, I have been trying
Longchamp's second ap- to come to a Longchamp
pearance at New York show for so long and so
Fashion Week, and cre- excited that they were do-
ative director Sophie Dela- ing this in New York and it's
fontaine couldn't have my birthday tomorrow, so
been happier. it's like an early celebra-
Delafontaine told The As- tion getting to dress up in
sociated Press she was Longchamp clothing and
moved by New York City's getting to come here," she
concrete jungle to tell the said.
season's story of a woman As for Jenner, she said a
traveling from the Big Ap- few things drew her to the
ple to Paris. French luxury brand.
"It's really a mix of this Pari- "I think something that I re-
sian attitude, effortless, nat- ally appreciated about
ural, very elegant woman them was their sense of Pa-
with a lot of felinity, and risienne style but also they
black and white mixed with find a way to bring in those
a lot of graphic, and New New York aspects, and of
York spirit — and very color- course the whole eques-
ful also," she said. trian thing is what drew me
And who embodies the on- to it, but also the timeless-
the-go Paris to New York girl The Longchamp Paris collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Saturday, Feb. 9, ness of it," said Jenner, long
perfectly? Jenner, who is 2019. known for her love of riding.
the face of the brand, said Associated Press Does she have a fashion
Delafontaine at Saturday's item she can't buy enough
show. The fall-winter ready-to- spired knit tops styled over ter, Kaia Gerber, who is of?
"She is very American, but I wear collection was the flowy whimsical dresses following in her famous "I mean shoes in general,"
think she is maybe the most story of a feminine tough and ruffled skirts paired mother's catwalk footsteps, she said. "I am a major
Parisienne one out of all of girl fond of studded, leath- with airy, equestrian-style modeled the second to last shoe addict. Like, I literally
those American girls. She er minis, bold black and blouses. Plus cropped vests look of the show. can't even walk into a de-
has also a touch of Parisi- white graphic tops and over bold, electric prints Wen is a fan of the decade partment store without be-
enne in her lifestyle. I like pants accessorized with and funky patterns. Each depicted. ing like 'oh my god — the
her free spirit, which is also chunky patent and animal model sported a signature "I really love the collection shoe section.' I have to, like,
very Longchamp," the de- print waist belts. Longchamp handbag. because it's like a later '70s close my eyes. Literally, it's
signer said. There were also 1970s-in- Cindy Crawford's daugh- style, The girl is very cool, so dangerous for me."q

Don Winslow writes novel about war on drugs

By BRUCE DESILVA came." boss? The Wharton Business torture, assassinations, mass
Associated Press Art Keller, a violent Drug En- School." murder, police payoffs,
"The Border" (William Mor- forcement Agency under- So Keller attacks the prob- mass incarceration and
row), by Don Winslow cover operative in the first lem in a new way, seek- political corruption from
Don Winslow's epic trilogy two novels, returns as the ing to uncover and punish Guatemala to Washington,
about America's longest unlikely choice to run the powerful Americans who D.C.
war, which he launched Drug Enforcement Adminis- profit from the drug trade. In the end, the words Win-
with "The Power of the Dog" tration. He was reluctant to He zeros in on an Ameri- slow puts in his protago-
in 2005 and continued with take the job, but he's come can bank that's laundering nist's mouth leave no doubt
"The Cartel" in 2015, comes to recognize that his previ- tens of millions of dollars for what his years of research
to a powerful and troubling ous efforts have come to the cartels by investing in have led him to believe:
conclusion in his new novel, naught. New York City real estate. "Because drugs are illegal,
"The Border." "You're standing on the Rio Those benefiting from the we send sixty billion dol-
By "longest war," Winslow Grande with a broom ... dirty money, it turns out, lars a year to the violent
does not mean Afghani- trying to sweep back the include the newly elected sociopaths of the cartels,
stan. He means the war on tide of heroin while billion- president of the United money that bribes police
drugs, which is 50 years old aires are sending jobs over- States, whom Winslow coy- This cover image released by and politicians and buys
William Morrow shows "The
and counting. seas, closing factories and ly names Dennison, and un- Border," a novel by Don Win- the guns that have killed
Although Winslow chose towns, killing hopes and ambiguously models after slow. hundreds of thousands of
to tell this story as fiction, dreams, and inflicting pain. Donald Trump. Associated Press people with no end in sight.
he spent much of the last Then they tell you to stop Other characters from the The 'Mexican drug' prob-
20 years researching his the heroin epidemic." first two books return, and temalan child asylum seek- lem is not a Mexican drug
subject on both sides of Opiates, he knows, "are a more are added in a novel ers to New York City junkies problem. It is the American
the border. "The more I response to pain. ... The dif- with a half-dozen subplots scrounging for a fix. The drug problem. We are the
learned," he says his intro- ference between a hedge ranging from Mexican car- novel, written in muscular, buyers, and without buyers,
duction, "the angrier I be- fund manager and a cartel tel power struggles to Gua- fast-paced prose, portrays there can be no sellers."q