Word: chic
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...know the moment of danger," she says. "It comes when they look to you for one thing only. Then when the fashion changes, they go away." The spring collection, shown in Milan last month, is identifiably Prada, but there are changes. The dropped waistlines are still around, but the chic, skinny belts are gone. So is some of the minimalist severity. "I'm tired of retro; I'm tired of chic," says the designer. Instead she uses color--but not loud color--more than she ever has and even indulges in pretty floral prints...
...Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this fall was a waiting list 100 chic names long for the new, $325 velvet hip-huggers. At Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, 256 women await a reshipment of $295 high-heel pumps. The fever has hit Wall Street. Last week Gucci was the red-hot initial public offering. At $22 a share, the once unhip, money-losing 72-year...
Cries of decadence, of le vrai chic...
...employed by a campaign called Justice for Janitors, sponsored by Sweeney's service-employees union, which has organized some 30,000 building cleaners over the past five years and brought the number of janitors in the union to 180,000. Members last spring staged a sit-in at the chic intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, that led to 49 arrests. But the demonstration paid off for 8,000 janitors employed by companies throughout the Los Angeles area, who won health benefits and paid vacation in addition to a top wage of $6.80 an hour...
They enter sporting chic bobs, shifts, minis, Airwalks, tie-dyes, shirtsleeves. The crowd includes wide-eyed preteens as well as graying members of the baby-boom generation. "I spent five hours here yesterday going through Netscape and playing computer games," says Davie, an affable 12-year-old who is sweetening a latte and proving that not all young Manhattanites are the Colt 45-swilling troublemakers depicted in the film Kids. "I like the drinks here--and the snacks...