Word: denims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria in White Plains, N. Y. (Minis and ruffles, short pants and denim jackets with the collar turned up and cuffs rolled back are in.) Top status possessions are a horse, a health-club membership and a monthly clothing allowance. A rilly killer bedroom has a waterbed, little baskets full of cosmetics, a mega sound system, wind chimes, posters of favorite bands...
...certainly trying. Mingling with 400 friends and neighbors who gathered on his Illinois farm for a beer-and-bratwurst fund-raising picnic, he wore a blue denim jacket and red Funk Seeds cap. In that down-home outfit, it was almost possible to forget that former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, 51, is a patrician intellectual and an unarousing public presence. Nonetheless, the crowd gave him a rousing sendoff, erupting with whoops and whistles when the local Democratic chairman asked, "Is Ad going to win?" Candidate Stevenson, meanwhile, just smiled, looking more embarrassed than flattered by the hoopla...
...fish filleted to about 2½ lbs. Breasts of chicken for supremes de volatile aux poivrons are at hand on the big, 6-ft. by 12-ft. marble worktable, along with peppers, tomatoes, fresh corn. Franey, who is wearing a tennis shirt and khakis, puts on a blue denim apron that matches Claiborne's. His dogs, a Labrador and a spaniel, array themselves on the red tile floor. He banishes to outer darkness a bottle of strong, dark Italian olive oil, with which Claiborne has been whisking up mayonnaise, and replaces it with a can of clear, rational French...
With millions of people around the world strutting their status in designer denim, label watchers are growing a bit jaded with the usual insignias. So to put a new gleam in their eyes, a Singapore firm has introduced blue jeans with a solid-gold label and a similarly lustrous price tag: $850. Yane jeans bear a Y-shaped trademark, which is made with 1.12 oz. of 22-karat gold, on the pants just above the right hip pocket...
...addition to producing, directing and arranging. Yazbeck plays electric piano and takes charge of an on-stage band perched precariously above the other performers on a scaffolding backdrop. Like the set, the music is spare and appropriate, never overpowering the swirl of denim, bandanas and flesh down in front...