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Ready-To-Hear Simply put, Ready-To-Hear is not one product. We are a multi-media publication in every sense of the word. And in a world where the term "unique" is much over-used, Ready-To-Hear really is unique; there is nothing like it out on the market today. It's a quarterly magazine about fashion and music. But the magazine is also packaged with an enhanced CD. Another major part of Ready-To-Hear is our comprehensive web site, which will include editorial content, links to design and music centers around the world, as well as links to web sites covering social issues that affect the fashion and music industries - such as urban culture, education, censorship, and youth issues. And what web page would not be complete without shopping? Yet our overall goal is much larger: to break down barriers to creativity -- to present "fashion" much as we should approach it in real life, as a way of interpreting and commenting on the world around us. We believe that capturing the powerful chemistry among fashion, music and the visual arts requires full use of all the new technologies and communications mediums available. And our multi-media approach allows us the freedom to cover our subject matter in new and challenging ways. Ready-To-Hear is just as much an exploration of what influences fashion as it is about the clothes themselves. It's about the people, their tools, their muses, and how their ideas take root in a social context, blossoming into something considered "fashionable." Ready-To-Hear, The Magazine This 80+ page magazine will be released in conjunction with the Ready-To-Wear shows four times a year. It will be CD-sized, packaged together with a CD that contains both music and interactive enhancements. The print magazine will contain feature articles, interviews with designers and musicians, articles on culture, technology, commerce, fashion spreads, in short, anything that contributes to our editorial focus on the artistic synergy that drives the world of "fashion." In addition, each issue will include several fashion shoots and photo essays, all of which will incorporate influences from fashion, art, design, music, and culture. Contributing editors (photographers and writers) will provide most of the content for the magazine -- adding insight and a diversity of opinion to our coverage. Just in the first two issues alone, contributing editors have included: -- Hilary Alexander, Fashion Editor of the Daily and Sunday London Telegraph -- Abigail Chisman, Fashion Editor of British Vogue Online -- Florence Muller, Former curator of the Fashion Museum, The Louvre, Paris -- Stan Herman, President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America -- John Galliano, Designer -- Galliano and Christian Dior (LVMH Haute Couture Line) -- David Dalton, Noted culture and arts writer, and Andy Warhol's first assistant -- David Mccabe, Owner of the largest private collection of Warhol portraits. Mr. Mccabe shot a 14-page exclusive photo-retrospective on Andy Warhol, featuring clothes by Paris-based designer, Kenzo. Mr. Mccabe is allowing us to print several of his most famous Warhol portraits as a backdrop to his photo essay for Ready-To-Hear. Ready-To-Hear will also continually present the viewpoints and insights of the most eclectic and current group of recording artists available in any magazine, interviews just in the first three issues include: -- Malcolm Mclaren, music impresario who fuses music and fashion -- Barry White, (the soul legend) who will appear on the cover of issue #3 -- Sister Bliss, of the MTV award-nominated, multi-platinum group Faithless -- Jeremy Healy, globe-trotting DJ, who also creates sound tracks for the world's most famous designers Moving forward we intend to continue enlivening the magazine with such a mix of points of view -- people from the mainstream of fashion and music establishment -- opinion leaders from music and fashion's elite -- trend setters from the fringes and margins, both high and low. It will be a magazine appealing to anyone with a sense of cultural curiosity -- curiosity about how the arts intermingle -- about the people, their tools, their muses, and how art and commerce combine to create something considered "fashionable." Ready-To-Hear, The CD Packaged with the magazine will be a CD Rom containing not only music, but interactive enhancements and editorial presentations. For example, Malcolm Mclaren has given us the video for his new release "Buffalo Gals," to put on CD#2 as an enhancement. Future enhancements will include such elements as movie previews and interactive editorial -- incorporating audio, animated text, and graphics -- so that the users can determine how the "article" is presented. Also included will be encryptions that allow users to link to other sites of interest. For the second issue we will be including "click-through" capability to several exclusive web sites, including Jean Paul Gaultier, Kenzo, British Vogue and others. The CD will also contain an average of 12 music tracks, which will be edited and mixed by our Paris-based sound stylist Michel Gaubert, who designs sound tracks for the runway shows of Chanel, Valentino, Thierry Mugler, Balenciaga, Sonya Rykiel, John Bartlett and many other designers in both the U.S. and Europe. The CD tracks will be selected from the music played on the catwalks of the world -- from Sydney to Milan -- and together with the print editorial will reflect the dominant style and attitude of the season. We will be featuring tracks from established artists both modern and retro -- old, new, and even some unreleased material. The CD will also serve as a platform to launch the best and brightest new talents whose work is yet undiscovered, as well as music written for the shows that would not otherwise see commercial release. With such a unique talent pool and music library to draw from, we expect to have all the material we need to produce a quarterly CD/Magazine that consistently offers an unprecedented mix of talent -- a product that will be a fresh addition to the market.