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...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...
...these places mean anything to readers who do not know New York City, and few New Yorkers would claim these spots as immortal landscapes of their city. WRVR has already been taken off the air. This, and frequent references to Bally shoes, Vera sheets. Thom McAn and Billy Blass, date the novel and make the characters seem affected, label-crazy people. Their present is stilted. Unfortunately, even the folkloric tropics suffer under the slaps of some heavy-handed metaphors, particularly the poor fishes who are made to listen to "the beating of hooves" which belong to clouds (?!?!). Worse, Jadine screams...
Nancy Reagan was resplendent, wearing in four days dresses by Designers Bill Blass, Adolfo, and James Galanos and a mink coat given to her by her husband...
Nancy's favorite designers are Adolfo, Bill Blass and Galanos, whom she admires especially for what she calls their "simple, classical lines." She has a penchant for red, but almost all her clothes are colorful. In Adolfo's view, she projects "a chic, affluent way of looking, extremely sophisticated." Blass calls her style "crisp and fresh." According to Gale Hayman, co-owner of Giorgio's, a shop on Rodeo Drive where Mrs. Reagan has bought some of her clothes, she will be "very proper, very dignified, like Pat Nixon. But she will go a few steps further...
...millions of others: "I mean, who can afford the price of great wines these days?" The wines they do serve are chosen by Reagan. Her stylish wardrobe will remain much the same: "I tend toward simpler clothes. I like some things from Yves Saint Laurent. I like Bill Blass, Adolfo, and I think Jimmy Galanos is a master, although he's got terribly expensive. I remember the first dress I ever got from Jimmy; I paid $125 for it. Those good old days!" Her size (5 ft. 4 in., 110 Ibs.) is not likely to change either. She does...