Word: designed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good, and so are the perks. On the road, Fielding, Raff and Bones travel like triplets. They each carry three dark blue mohair suits, tailored with covered buttons and zippered pockets by Brioni of Rome. Their shirts are all of fine white oxford cloth sewn to Fielding's own design (handmade buttonholes, extra-long French cuffs) by a Majorcan shirtmaker. Their ties are regimental-striped and made in Italy. Their topcoats of blue vicuŅa are cut by English House in Copenhagen. Even their techniques are triplicate...
...Harvard yearbooks were once much better-like in my freshman year. But there it was-dark red with black lettering on the cover just like this year's-an honest-to-God book worth saving, with more than a dozen Faculty profiles, good features on Harvard music and the Design School, and a long anthology of the best writing from undergraduate publications. Harvard would never buy the intensely orderly rah-rah spirit behind most high- school yearbooks, but the 1965-66 edition suggests that the substanceless artsiness of this year's number is not the only alternative...
...practice the dying art of hand-forging iron, he whimsically wrote to an American pal: "I can make anything from lamps to chastity belts." The pal promptly responded with an order for a hand-forged chastity belt from an anonymous Texan. Well, why not? Renwick found a design in a public library, forged a replica-and immediately received orders for 40 more...
Since then, Renwick has had little time to produce anything but chastity belts. Orders for his belts-decorated with a frilly flower design and diamond-shaped cutouts around the waistband -keep arriving from the U.S., France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. A Mr. Fung of Hong Kong wanted one with a 32-inch waist. A dealer in Italy asked for 150 of them and in Kuwait, Renwick's agent reports that a few sheiks are interested in his wares. "I'd much rather make a weather vane or a fat cow than reproduce something as inherently horrid...
...celebrate this earlier renaissance, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design has mounted a small but superb exhibition of 63 Romanesque and early Gothic stone sculptures...