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...West Germans, the annual migrations have had a profound impact on taste and spending habits. Looking at the shops in urban centers, a visitor might think himself in the wrong country. Here a Benetton, there a Chloe, a Chanel, farther along a Giorgio Armani, a Fendi, a Valentino. The name of every other restaurant seems to begin with le or la, and every other menu includes a dish or two from faraway places. Better off than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive...
...European Parliament last week voted overwhelmingly to reject the project and called on Italy to withdraw its candidacy. The Parliament thereby joined its voice to those of 300 global lobbyists -- including Claudio Abbado, Giorgio Armani, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jacques Cousteau and Gore Vidal -- who have signed on as city defenders. The rabble rousing on the celebrity cocktail circuit has brought thousands of protest letters from around the world pouring into the B.I.E.'s Paris office. In Venice the city council remains categorically opposed, as do 63 organizations ranging from police to town planners. "Mounting a spectacular Barnum & Bailey circus...
...Weinsteins, who look more like rumpled used-car dealers than Armani- outfitted moguls, say their winning knack comes from a cinema-saturated childhood in Queens, N.Y. "One day we saw this amazing movie Truffaut had done about street kids called The 400 Blows, and it spoke to us," recalls Harvey. "We fell in love with films." They still go with what speaks to them personally, putting no stock in prevailing Hollywood wisdom. They were enchanted last year by My Left Foot, about a severely crippled Irish artist. "So many people said, 'It's not sexy, it doesn't have...
...skins, has, in part, boosted the new fad by encouraging designers to play with the unreal thing in their lines. Designer Christian Lacroix's fringed panther-print polymid shawl ($470) is hot stuff. Patrick Kelly has scored with skinny dresses in leopard stretch velvet ($340), and even purist Giorgio Armani uses mock lynx for a duffle coat in the Emporio Armani line ($685). After dark, the more the merrier seems to be the rule. Says Annie Allanche, a manager at Paris' Irie boutique: "Women are mixing leopard, tiger, giraffe and ocelot for evening...
Leland's successes came in part because he was hard not to like, and he would not give up. The dashiki he wore in the Texas legislature gave way to Armani suits, the clenched fist to working within the system. After persuading New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Margaret Roukema to join him on a trip to Africa in 1984, Leland got in to see Ronald Reagan, who then agreed to support more foreign food aid and order ships loaded with grain to head for Ethiopia. Leland leaves his wife Alison, who is two months pregnant, a son -- and a world less...