Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattans fashion world. For his look at the way models live, Wilde went roller-discoing with Supermodel Apollonia, brunched with British Model Rachel Ward at the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court and interviewed Louise Roberts, who every week combs through as many as 200 applicants to the Eileen Ford agency to come up with one or two who might have a modeling future. "Normally I work the streets," Wilde says. "This job was like being let loose in Cartier to fondle its rarest gems- with one's eyes, of course...
Harbison interviewed agency executives and bookers to learn how the business has changed. Says she: "There is a lot more money involved now, and that means a lot more pressure. Eileen Ford summed up the difference in her models in three words: 'They can count,' "Says Simpson: "I always thought that all a model had to do to look beautiful was put on pretty clothes and stand in front of a camera. But after this behind-the-lens view of the business, I know that something far more important is involved-very hard work...
What is replacing it? Vigorous good health is still in fashion, and all may rejoice that we are not likely to see again soon what John Casablancas, head of Elite Model Management, calls "the asparagus look" ? white, limp and shapeless. Eileen Ford, the formidable housemother of the largest model agency in the world, the New York City-based Ford Models, Inc., regards the '60s in retrospect as "freaky" and the '70s as "slovenly," and sees progress now toward a strong, "classic" look...
...want. Though that is what Congress allocates for each First Family's entire refurbishing, the Reagans need not worry about how to pay for their new digs. Extra bills can be paid out of the million fund. - By E. Graydon Carter. Reported by Michael Moritz/Los Angeles and Eileen Shields/Washington
...groups have lobbied for greater police protection and harsher sentences for criminals. Elderly residents have marched in the streets with banners reading WIPE OUT CRIME IN OUR LIFETIME. Voters this fall elected candidates who promised sweeping changes. After twelve years in office, Mayor Frank Fasi was defeated by Eileen Anderson, an energetic reformer...