Burberry’s artofthetrench.comhttp://bit.ly/7ar9xj

The Argument

There’s nothing worse than the pot calling the kettle black, which is the irony of today’s NY Times Critic’s Notebook Why So Stodgy, Prada.com?

Opinion #1: SEO purpose headlines

I agree that on first impression Prada.com’s not nearly as captivating as Burberry’s new ArtoftheTrench. But it’s better than ‘stodgy’, a fact I disputed immediately reading the NYT headline. In reality, the critique doesn’t even discuss Prada.com, and I assume the brand name is used for headline SEO ranking purposes.

Burberry’s ArtoftheTrench is totally fabulous. No wonder it has 3.7 million page views and an Alexa.com of 123,000. Heading over to Alexa.com, the good news on Art of the Trench might be ebbing, but let’s table that topic for a moment.

Opinion #2: No links to key points

The Prada.com kick-in-the-butt isn’t deserved, if you actually visit the website Prada.com.

Could we please have live links NYT? All of your links except Art of the Trench go to internal NYT pages. Readers expect to travel to your reference points in today’s digital world, so links please.

Yes, I know readers might not come back, once you let them fly solo. Digital readers aren’t monogamous and every day we must prove ourselves as a worthy partners, or readers will leave us with slim chances of a reconciliation.

I simply adore Tom Ford. Madly, in fact.

As the Fashion Director of Victoria’s Secret in the 1990s, I wandered the streets of the world a total believer in Tom Ford’s sophisticated but blatantly provocative look at sexuality. With a few exceptions, Ford always knew just how far to push the sexual envelope, leaving the viewer on the edge of erotic tension.

via Daily YummoUnless you were a completely uptight, repressed sexual personality, Tom Ford coachs you into sexual awareness. Even if you chose not to open Pandora’s Box, you know what lays smoldering in the darkness. As Shakira said recently, “libido is the engine of the world”.

It’s true that Tom Ford is often accused of being a modern-day, superficially erotic dandy, but I never say him that way. His persona and creative mind always seemed plentiful to me and in balance.

A few years ago, Tom Ford astonished the fashion industry by walking away from it and a working relationship that no longer worked for him. All the details are in today’s NYTimes feature Tom Ford’s Directorial Debut Is Silencing His Critics.

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