Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still true, judging from the congenially berserk glad rags for men and women that he showed in Paris last week. Extremely deft, marketable clothing was mixed in with deliberately parodistic fantasies. There were gauzy see-through gossamers over checked bikini briefs for men; hiya-big-boy bathing suits for women that transform breasts into medium-range ballistic missiles; and sarongs for everyone. But there were also roomy, temperate suits for both sexes, and a selection of loungewear and splendor-in-the-grass sunsuits that managed to be forthrightly sexy without turning coy. It was shrewd and prototypical Gaultier; in short...
WHILE reasons for this chain of events are complex, one common theme has emerged--resentment over the Administration's misguided attempt, through backing of the contras, to topple the Sandinistas. Moreover, deft Nicaraguan diplomacy has left the United States in the unenviable position of refusing a peace treaty--that profered recently by the Contadora group of Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venzuela. Rather than budge the Nicaraguan junta, Reagan's policies have succeeded only in winning sympathy for the Sandinistas, no easy trick given the regime's lengthening track-record of repression and economic failure. The current furor over the publication...
...lightning-quick costume changes and split-personality voice throwing. Quinton as the maid skulks off stage right and 20 seconds later appears at the French doors as Lord Edgar. At the climax, Ludlam's Nicodemus struggles with Ludlam's Lady Enid-a true vaudeville tour de farce. Deft as a textbook travesty, delightful enough to take your mom (or your mummy) to, Irma Vep serves as a spiked tonic to the young theater season...
...Nothing should look serious, because I think everything should have a light touch." At its most deft-the way it is almost always displayed to the public-Lagerfeld's touch has the lightness and much of the color of a hang glider...
...younger customers are going in for heavy costuming, theatrical makeup and thrift-shop freak, their elders seem to be in the mood to dress rich. "The sense of community and liberalism that blue jeans symbolized is no longer in fashion," observes Novelist Alison Lurie, author of a deft study of fashion, The Language of Clothes. "In the blue jeans and T shirt costume, you couldn't tell a millionaire from an auto mechanic. Jeans identified you with an entire generation, not a particular group, race, nationality or sex. But the rich don't want to blend in with...