Word: dress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bride wore a "very simple floor-length shirtwaist dress, pink silk with gold thread," the bride said yesterday. The couple spent eight days honeymooning on the Caribbean island of Nevis...
...urges growth and investment in high-technology industries. But he has balanced his views with positions more attuned to a Colorado constituency. He advocated strong consumer-protection laws but also worked for abolition of price controls on oil and gas. When campaigning back home, Wirth shucks his stylish Washington dress in favor of cowboy boots and big belt buckles, but some Democratic pols think he must cultivate a more genuinely down-to-earth manner. Says one: "It's something Tim needs to work on. He can't seem to help letting people know that he is smarter and busier than...
According to one of the students who has decided not to renew his membership because of the new Pudding policies, "If the officers had done all the choosing freshman year, lots of the fun current members wouldn't have been selected, because they didn't dress snazzily or go to the right high school...
...want to feel compressed or crushed by what they wear." Like Ozbek, Gigli also studied architecture, but he works from individual pieces, not a grand design. The usual fashion practice is to come up with a broad-based aesthetic for each collection. Gigli creates individual pieces -- a lovely evening dress of elasticized linen, for example, that hangs like an unpleated Fortuny -- and fits them into a whole. "Each piece I design has its own life," he says. "Then I assemble them. The clothes, to be strong, should be soft...
...that standard, a Gigli dress is positively brawny. Wearing one is like being brushed by cobwebs. His fashion has an urbane modernity that stands in stark contrast to the antiquity that enveloped him as he was growing up. Born in the soil-rich region of Romagna, Gigli was "surrounded by books" as a boy. His father and grandfather were antiquarian booksellers, and, the designer remembers, "We always lived in houses full of antique furniture and paintings -- beautiful but uncomfortable." His Milan studio, staffed with six associates, is unfussy; his apartment has lots of white space and green plants, and that...