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...sound environmentally, as they involve soil rotation, but things could easily get out of control. Picture the earth as one vast upturned boneyard. Did Isadora Duncan actually hang herself? Did Trotsky walk into a door? One dead President deserves another. Some overeager investigator may lobby to dig up Calvin Coolidge, to determine if he was ever alive. Now that one mentions it, who is buried in Grant's tomb...
Like the clock and candlestick from "Beauty and the Beast," "Hunchback" animates the inanimate for comic relief. Three gargoyles are Quasi's only friends in the cathedral. Like Calvin's Hobbes, the Gargoyles are alive only to Quasimodo. They character's are a small tribute to the original Hunchback's author, as two of the three are named Vic and Hugo...
...could even argue that Klein's elegant take on minimalism has come to define the look of the late 20th century in the U.S. "There are hardly any major designers who have not been influenced by the kind of American style Calvin epitomizes," notes Valerie Steele, a professor at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology, Klein's alma mater. Indeed, his spare-chic ethos is reflected in the work of everyone from superstars like Donna Karan, Michael Kors and Miuccia Prada to up-and-comers like handbag designer Kate Spade. More significantly, it is the bedrock...
...then Calvin Klein, more than any other major designer, has maintained a keen sense of mass-cultural tastes. He has kept his position as a beloved clothier of urbane working women, all the while forging a lucrative star status at the mall with his CK, fragrance and underwear divisions. With the launch of his jeans line in 1978, he became one of the first designers to put Vogue-world cachet within reach of ordinary consumers. In the process he helped strip fashion of its elitism; now countless designers offer lower-end lines...
...pushing came last summer with a series of jeans ads that featured models who looked like teenagers in sexually evocative poses. Even President Clinton protested. Klein pulled the ads, but only after he'd reaped as much press from them as possible. A master at elevating his own celebrity, Calvin Klein may be one of the most recognizable names anywhere in the world. Few Puritans can claim that...