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In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (an uncle of the present-day Paris couturier) reported mysterious lines, or canali, linking those dark areas. By 1906, Percival Lowell, an amateur astronomer and one of the Boston Lowells (his brother Abbott Lawrence was president of Harvard, his sister was Poet...
Mad Hatter. Adolfo started at the top, with hats. Now 36, the Cuban-born designer came to the U.S. 17 years ago after a short-lived apprenticeship ("picking up pins" is how he describes it) with Paris Couturier Balenciaga. He checked into a job in the millinery department of Manhattan...
Adolfo's prices, though higher than ready-made clothes, are considerably lower than couturier fashions. A maxicoat can be had for $325, a blouse for $90. And though Adolfo is fond of calling his salon a club and his regular clients members, he confesses that "Membership in the club...
Still, nothing, obviously, is going to stop females from wearing trousers-at least until the fashion winds shift. In fact, Designer Geoffrey Beene predicts that "by the year 2000, women will be wearing only pants." There is one thing that men can do to retaliate: stop wearing pants themselves. Paris...
For all Brazilians, it is an expensive affair. The poor spend a good deal of money on their fantasias and work diligently on them all year long, looking forward to the great day when they come down from their hills to take over the city's avenues. Says one...