Word: denims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the company, it only takes about 15 minutes to buy a pair of Diesel jeans. Paying off the credit card bill, however, is another story. Diesel's dream denim, which rings up at an outrageous $150 a pair, has quickly become a status symbol among Harvard's label-conscious thanks to the recently opened boutique on JFK Street. Feigning practicality, some buyers cite the jeans' just-right fit and trick male, female and unisex models...
...waist, tight torso and straight leg, this gender-neutral garment builds bridges. According to Diesel, the jeans deliver consumers from baggy-jean-blah to snug-Euro-style. Female shoppers, raving about the loose comfortable feel, have done everything but hold the Diesel distributors hostage for this designer denim...
...migrated to sportswear. Versace has a mink-lined biker boot, Prada has a mink vest, Fendi and others have fur skirts, Michael Kors has silver fox leg warmers and, for the ultimate in dressing down and up at the same time, Jean Paul Gaultier is offering a fur-lined denim jacket. Fur is targeted to such a young market that there are even furs for children...
Unlike Larry McMurtry, the other contemporary master of the artful oater, McCarthy is concerned more with the what-was of storytelling than with the what-next. In McMurtry's Old West, cowboys ride off in clouds of eventful folklore. McCarthy's brooding buckaroos fade slowly, like denim, into a meticulously authenticated past. The novels are both stoic laments for the vanishing wrangler and lively repositories of regional landscape, foods, clothes, gear and idioms--enough of them in Spanish to suggest the coming of the bilingual novel...
Everyone in Cabrini-Green, it seems, knows Brother Bill, 63. He is a difficult man to overlook, his 5-ft. 11-in., 220-lb. frame clad in a trademark flowing, sky-blue cassock made from hundreds of tattered denim patches. That robe has become an understood symbol of peace and humility in this place with precious little of either. Fifty-three times, by his count, he has waded into gunfire in order to stop it. Fifty-three times, the gunfire has stopped. And 53 times, he has emerged unscathed...