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...silk and ruffles. Amid the froufrous and frills, Kawakubo and Yamamoto rolled out their collections and set Paris on its ear. The clothes were revolutionary, shocking - stark, unstructured and overwhelmingly black. Bewildered critics dubbed Kawakubo's first Paris collection in 1981 - with its frayed seams and misplaced armholes - "Hiroshima chic." This was a moon shot away from the padded-shoulder and pastel look paraded on Dallas. In 1985, Bernadine Morris, then a fashion critic of the New York Times wrote: "Their presentations were so powerful and their clothes so radical that some feared they would change the face of fashion...
Transplanted Japanese chefs played an important role. Nobu Matsuhisa's Nobu restaurant introduced traditional Japanese recipes with a Peruvian twist, delighting the public and influencing chic kitchens of all types. "You see it in the emphasis on simplicity, purity and quality of product," says owner Drew Nieporent, a top New York restaurateur who also owns TriBeCa Grill, Montrachet and Heartbeat...
Ruth Reichl remembers the uproar when her biting 1993 story about how unknowns are treated at the chic Le Cirque restaurant appeared in the New York Times. "As my husband said, you'd think I'd exposed police corruption," she says. Now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, Reichl made her reputation by chronicling not just the sensory attributes of food but its emotional and psychosocial qualities as well. She brings those same skills to writing about her life in Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Random House; 302 pages...
Fabrice Luchini arrives fashionably late for our lunch date at the Ritz bar. He is wearing a black sweatshirt, black trousers and a 24-hour stubble - a little touch of bohemian chic that stands out smartly among the designer suits and Hermès scarves...
...play with the plush koalas in the Discovery Channel Store.) Anyway, to make a long story short, Alanis helped expurgate long-standing rage-and with this mass catharsis came mass complacency. The Spice Girls were born, TRL helped launch Britney, Christina and the other blonde nincompoops, and angry chic just seemed, well, old. But perhaps the world just got a bit too mysogynistic for its own good-in the past few weeks, we are seeing hints that the unconscious rage might be surfacing...