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...high proportion (20%) of Lycra in the suits, which gives them a tighter fit. Says Leah Gottlieb: "I make clothes for people who are comfortable in their bodies." While the company sells its products in Israel in a wide range of outlets, in the U.S. it caters to the chic crowd in such stores as Neiman-Marcus, I Magnin and Saks Fifth Avenue. Says Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's vice president of fashion: "They're very innovative and take trends from ready-to-wear collections to their swimwear line...
Eventually the downtown scene burnt itself out in a blaze of success. Rampant gentrification has made SoHo's once funky lofts affordable only to the moneyed, and its former have-not inhabitants have also become chic. Anderson has forsaken the streets for major concert halls like the Brooklyn Academy, where in 1983 she performed her six-hour multimedia epic, United States, Parts I-IV. Wilson directed Marc-Antoine Charpentier's baroque opera Medee last fall in France; Reich's music has been performed by major orchestras from San Francisco to Cologne. The next extraordinary concentration of creative artists...
...replaced wine snobbery as the latest noon-hour recreation. People order their eau by brand name, as they once did Scotch. The fastidious will not take it on the rocks, because ice bruises the bubbles. Only aspiring starlets drink Perrier ("designer water," sniff detractors). Evian is Hollywood's chic refresher, and the hottest innovation of all is Cit-Jet, a pressurized can of lemon juice from France that will flavor the waters of summer '85. Says Novelist-Screenwriter Josh Greenfeld (Harry and Tonto): "Pretty soon we'll be ordering water by the year...
...women is suspicious. Cyd (Kathryn Harold), Blue's five-year live-in who abandons him for another painter; Candy (the late Carole Wayne), the voluptuous "submissive" S & M model for Blue's Fiorucci-style erotic paintings, and Liliane (Carole Laure), Eli's "ideal" woman, who works in a chic Los Angeles art gallery, are shown with such a distrustful distance that we never get far past their appearances. These characters are flat, like blank canvasses on which Blue and Eli project their own dreams and anxieties...
There's another chic new drug on college campuses, one whose street name is on everyone's lips. It's called divestment. XTC acts by temporarily disrupting nerve synapses in the brain: divestment acts by temporarily disrupting the synapses of everydayness, the canalized pathways that carry us to classes, to graduation, and finally into the world of jobs and the business of living...