Word: armanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Armani's Style...
Your article on Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani [April 5] was an exhilarating and refreshing story. He has done wonders with a bolt of fabric, and has an extremely well-groomed approach toward dressing a woman. If you've never experienced the feeling of wearing an Armani, you've never experienced comfort or freedom in clothes. I'm proud to flaunt his wings on the back of my jeans...
Lauren, like Armani, began as a designer of men's wear, and both started cutting from the same English bias. The man from Milan worked his unstructured radicalization; Lauren stayed as close as possible to tradition, re-establishing and rejustifying it. His clothes, at first, were deliberately evocative of the 1920s and made their way- in a fashion that would both help and haunt him-into the 1974 film The Great Gatsby. More recently, Lauren has looked west for inspiration. His "prairie look" last fall for women, with the hem of a petticoat peeking out from under a skirt...
PERRY ELLIS. If Armani rewrote the fashion book, Perry Ellis took a very close look at his opening chapter. "If we want to be honest," Armani says, "it is not only Perry Ellis but Calvin Klein who has gotten inspiration from my things. But I'd say that, perhaps, Calvin Klein is more of a stylist who can transform a good idea into a commercial success. Perry Ellis is more courageous. He produces a fashion more genuinely...
...handiwork. "Here, it's on this jacket here. I kept it 'cause the cat peed on it." Barnes, 28, admits to doing "kind of spacy designs. But in a time when kids are playing electronic games, we shouldn't be bringing back Argyle socks." Barnes, like Armani, designs her fabric, but goes so far as to weave a sample swatch on her own hand loom, whipping up wild combos of silk, cotton and wool. "I found that I could sell the wildest fabrics for men if the style wasn't outrageous," she says. Barnes...