Word: blass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing wrong with that, up to a point, and nothing wrong with the hero worship of fashion designers. They are every bit as deserving of celebrity as the celebrities they dress. One begins to wonder only when such fashion kings as Pierre Cardin, Givenchy, Bill Blass and Ralph Lauren bestow the knighthood of their labels on wines, automobiles, chocolates or home fashions. It merely makes these things fashionable, which is not enough. Caveat emptor. Enjoy the presumed prestige, but do not confuse high-priced celebrity labels with design...
...name-wear of haute couture. They produced a barbed, post-dinner skit, to the tune of Second Hand Rose, that featured such lines as "Secondhand dress/ Goodbye, you old worn-out mess/ I never wear a frock more than once/ Calvin Klein, Adolfo, Ralph Lauren and Bill Blass/ Ronald Reagan's mamma's going strictly first class." The ditty elicited rousing applause and, to the surprise of everyone, a bold, well-prepared rejoinder from the First Lady. As a garment rack was dramatically wheeled out from the wings, Nancy strode onstage-in a veritable riot of pantaloons, yellow...
...much to make women more beautiful," Armani says. "Saint Laurent broke with a certain 'chic' look of the past, which had become redundant, to produce something more youthful, more lively, more modern." Armani is also catholic enough to admire the giddiness of Kenzo, the classicism of Blass, the eccentricity of Karl Lagerfeld and the sidelong inspiration of Kamali...
Leather also lends itself to fine detailing. Armani's creations for Italy's Mario Valentino print, stripe and weave leather to resurrect a rich Renaissance look. Bill Blass also uses a weave effect on some blouses, and Ralph Lauren has put ruffles on suede in delicate peasant blouses. Says he: "Feathery-light blouses that once were made of cotton can now be done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine...
...inside the red-and green-painted garage, a carpet covers the grease stains. While the walls are still lined with tires, fan belts and hub caps, the steel hoists once used to lift cars now support jeans, sweaters, shirts and skirts bearing 20 different designer labels, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Sasson. The gas is discount: $1.26 per gal. So are the threads: $29.99 for a pair of Diane Von Furstenberg jeans, compared with $41 at a San Jose department store...