Word: designators
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scion to an 85-year-old family leather-goods business but also an active communist who dabbled in mime. An odd combination, perhaps, but evidently terrific preparation for the world of fashion, where Prada's mime-quiet minimalism has made her fashion house into the decade's most powerful design force...
...Milan's historic shopping arcades. But since Prada and Bertelli united--in marriage and business--in 1987, they have turned a respectable business into fashion's most watched house. They added footwear, women's ready-to-wear, a younger collection called Miu Miu, menswear, underwear and sportswear. Prada's design sense has made her the most influential designer of the decade, with a ripple effect being felt as far down as the Gap. She has an exquisite offbeat sensibility, creating clothes that look simple, even plain, but are incredibly luxurious. Her first successful item, the logo-less...
Shady, sloping streets cover College Hill in Providence ($9.50 on the Attleboro/Stoughton line), home of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Thayer Street, a downsized Haight-Ashbury, crowns College Hill...
...Girl Friday (1940). Sometimes you just want to have fun, and what's more fun than this? 9: Blade Runner (1982). One of the most influential films of the last 30 years, and not only on other movies but on architecture and pop culture as well. It set the design standard for what the future would look like. 8: The Wild Bunch (1969) Violence never looked so good. 7: Miller's Crossing(1990). Look into your heart. Sure, this is in many ways a homage to the great gangster movies -- so what? Everything works, and works brilliantly. 6: The Godfather...
Burne-Jones was an amazingly proficient craftsman, a one-man guild, fecund in painting, book design, tapestry, embroidery, stained glass, tiles, mosaic. He had little formal art training and always felt insecure about his figure drawing. What fired him as an artist was his early, deep and long-lasting friendship with William Morris, whom he met at Oxford in the 1850s, when both were new undergraduates. They had meant to go into the Anglican Church, but in 1855 they resolved to dedicate their lives to art and design...