Word: armanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directional." All these concepts are greatly honored in the world of fashion, even when they may not be recognized. Show clothes that are funny, disrespectful and touched by madness, as Vivienne West wood did, and you risk not being taken seriously. But show without a show, as Giorgio Armani did with his mannequins and video, and you JE risk being taken no way at all. You may default on your lifetime role in that seasonal display of glamour, giddiness and social scrambling that travels from country to country like a medicine show offering cures for which there are no known...
...Channing's cheek at opening-night curtain call, this sort of thing happens with regularity in the theater of fashion. After the show, fans review the designers with the kind of blurbs that usually run in block letters in movie ads. Lagerfeld was tops, Ferre was a knockout, Armani's still the master, Montana was wild, Mugler was a kick, Saint Laurent is still the high priest, and what about these Japanese, anyway? America tends to a greater uniformity of style, mostly because of heavier commercial pressure from a larger market. So Bill Blass becomes classic, Ralph Lauren...
Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is bright, Jewish and just pretty enough to be told she has that Audrey Hepburn quality. "Sheik" Capadilupo (Vincent Spano) is Italian and shiftless, with Vaselined hair and a wardrobe that Giorgio Armani might have designed for Jimmy ("the Weasel") Fratianno. She loves rock 'n' roll, he loves Sinatra. She's going to Sarah Lawrence, he's going nowhere. They have nothing in common but an over whelming love for her. But something in Jill thrills to the troubles Sheik gets himself into and to the threat he poses to her middle...
Just reading about Armani and his creations gave me a feeling of elegance...
...girls who are modeling Armani's fashions look as if they had raided a thrift shop and come out with clothing that wasn't in their size. Since my words will carry little weight, I'll turn to Dorothy Parker, who summed it up rather nicely in her short story Just a Little One: "You mean those clothes of hers are intentional? My heavens, I always thought she was on her way out of a burning building...