Word: disco
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...Tahari had his own shop on East 53rd Street that catered to the disco crowd, and created two labels called Midnight Lady and Morning Lady. He peddled trends like handkerchief-hem dresses to the club crowd. In 1979, with disco losing its rhythm, he opened a shop on Madison Avenue and began selling suits with a trendy vibe, cashing in on the needs of working women...
Tahari's post-disco designs helped popularize what's known as the bridge category--less expensive career-based clothing--in the early 1980s. Then, responding to the demand for trendier, more comfortable clothing, he started Theory in 1997 with former Anne Klein executive Andrew Rosen. The idea was to base a whole contemporary collection around stretch fabrics, particularly pants. Tahari sold his Theory stake for $53 million in 2003 (He is now suing Rosen for $182 million claiming "fraudulent self-dealing." Rosen calls the suit "a fantasy ... created in total disregard of the facts") and in 2004 made an unsuccessful...
...become all the more impressive in the hands of a director who is able to create such a fantastic and compelling narrative. Murphy should also be commended for the film’s painful and isolating atmosphere that not only speaks to the Finch household, but also the disco glamour and antidepressant culture of the 1970s. Employing platform shoes and a soundtrack that includes Elton John, Murphy brings this decade to life. Murphy evokes such a sense of claustrophobia from his sets of the cluttered Finch household, that even the audience can feel its effects. Perhaps the only criticism...
...only because of Meloy’s previous success—no other band comes remotely close to his tragic sketches and roguish tales. Although one can imagine Capitol Record’s hand behind radio-perfect songs like “O Valencia!” or the disco-beat of “Perfect Crime #2,” by and large the Decemberists newfound musical depth naturally fits Meloy’s sublime stories...
...Hurricane Katrina, you’ll probably step on your date’s foot. In almost every song, the lyrics don’t reflect the music at all, a point Shears makes plain with the opening track’s ironic title. The juxtaposition of the disco melodies and the heavy subject matter will probably polarize listeners into love-it-or-hate-it camps. Should the Sisters be criticized for making the serious superficial? Or praised for the audacity of having fun in this dark twisted world? I don’t know, but there?...