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Article: MEMO PAD: BLACK MARKS...PERSONNEL BUSINESS.(Emily Davies works criticized)(Cond Nast appoints Robert Priest)
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- WWD
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- March 23, 2006
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Byline: Jeff Bercovici, Sara James
BLACK MARKS: Fashion memoirist Emily Davies' claim that her uncredited use of previously published material was an accident is seeming less credible. Davies, a former fashion writer for the Times of London, continues to insist she had no intention of passing off another writer's words as her own in her proposal for "How to Wear Black," but former colleagues and other journalists in London's fashion community say the episode fits a pattern.
Davies' supposed status as a fashion insider is the basis for "How to Wear Black," which reportedly fetched a six-figure bid from Simon & Schuster and Random House U.K. in a December ...