Word: coate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beene can sculpt a dress with sensual simplicity or fill out a coat so that it seems to loft from the body. His rule breaking -- like putting diamonds on a plastic bracelet -- is focused, almost casual, and helps shatter stereotypes. In the fashion world, Beene has resisted and neatly refuted the caricature of Americans as the slightly slaphappy innovators of sportswear and merchandising trends. A long black wool coat from 1983, with flowing gold satin insets along its back and sleeves, constructed of curved seams, is a masterly combination of grand luxe and offhand invention, a subtle experiment in enlarging...
Like all of Beene's best work, this coat does not flout tradition, it teases it. Beene keeps rebellion firm but marginal, just as he did as a young medical student, when he sketched dresses on the page borders of his Gray's Anatomy. The year after Geoffrey Beene, Inc., was launched, Beene won the first of an unprecedented eight Coty Awards, the industry's Oscars, for his women's fashions. By the early '70s, he had made a wedding dress for Lynda Bird Johnson and had become one of the country's best-known and most sought-after designers...
...decide what to get Rover for his birthday? How about a fancy scent? Diana Borba, president of Snooty Scents in Houston, offers perfumed shampoo and coat conditioners that smell like popular people fragrances. Rover can use scents that are billed as similar to those of Giorgio, Obsession, Aramis and Polo. Borba advertises twin-packs of shampoo and conditioner, which retail for $9.95 to $12.95, with such lines as "If you like Obsession, your dog will love Snooty Scents...
When Mark Phillips entered the dressage arena of Seoul's new $83 million equestrian park last week, neither luck nor the weather was with him. Dressed in customary black hunting cap and swallowtail coat, the husband of Britain's Princess Anne began the first stage of the grueling three-day equestrian event under a hard, wind-driven rain and placed a mediocre 28th out of 40. Phillips' lot did not improve on the second day: his mount Cartier failed to withstand the speed and endurance test on an obstacle course replete with bamboo hedges and water traps. At that point...
...fine art of lying ought to be lamented, public figures can still get by without the ability to lie. Look at Ronald Reagan. All you have to do is flash your charming smile and let your sincere but vague manner show through, and you too could acquire his Teflon coat of armor. Perhaps he should market his secret. It could make him millions, as well as provide us with a new generation of truly effective leaders who could, in all sincerity, say (and not break into peals of laughter) "Let's do this one for the Gipper...