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Transportation Secretary Federico Pena spent Thursday in Baltimore, Maryland, touting the benefits NAFTA would shower on a dredging-equipment firm that exports 80% of its products overseas. Not coincidentally, Pena spoke not far from the home district of Representative Ben Cardin, another Democrat who remains undecided about NAFTA...
...alongside aerospace as France's primary % export industry, Hermes likes to call itself "a firm apart." It has resisted predatory takeover artists who have swallowed up such venerable family strongholds as Louis Vuitton and Lanvin. It has refused to license its name to sell discount luggage a la Pierre Cardin or mass-produced hosiery a la Christian Dior. But what really makes Hermes different is its stubborn adherence to century-old manufacturing techniques. "Hermes is an anachronism," says Gene Pressman, executive vice president of Barney's, the upscale clothing chain. "It's about quality that's made to last...
...Opening Day, astroturf looks like grass. The domes look like a starlit sky. The Red Sox road uniforms look like Pierre Cardin originals...
...course, not all haute couturiers appear to have robbed Hollywood's Western Costume Co. Pierre Cardin, at 65 the grandfather of the mini, has taken a resolutely contemporary approach. "I don't do things that are retrospective or cinematic or musical or costume," says Cardin. "I like things modern." Despite his protestations, however, Cardin's collection includes a four-alarm micromini, a thigh-high black stretch number worn with elbow-length gloves that are longer than the hemline of the dress. It prompted the French press to bill him as "Mad Max of the Hemlines...
Celebrity bashes are not the Kremlin's forte, but last week's coming- out party for Mikhail Gorbachev was worthy of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The stars that shone at the glamorous gala ranged from literature (Graham Greene) through economics (John Kenneth Galbraith) to fashion (Pierre Cardin). The only common denominator seemed to be that the guests had world-size reputations and were willing to give a polite hearing to the Kremlin's pitch for peace...