Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vaulted him in front of the Faculty Council to speak against the referendum results. A couple of hours spent talking in dining halls and a determination to voice a valid complaint was enough to make Smith a leader, a further demonstration of the transparency of Harvard's student leadership fabric...
...Fair would be a nifty thing to whip up. Local citizens were dubious, and some are now peeved. But what was not long ago a desolate downtown patch of rail sidings and weeds is now a nearly complete 77-acre complex of gleaming pavilions, an aerial tramway, a fabric-covered amphitheater and a quarter-mile-long pit that will soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft housing two restaurants, which with its gilded-globe top looks like the world's only 266-ft. microphone. Says Fair President...
...little on-the-job training, Cerruti sent Armani off to spend a month in a factory, where, Armani recalls, "I fell in love with textiles and began to understand the work behind each yard of fabric. That's why today, when I see anyone throwing away a sample of cloth, it's like cutting off my hand." He stayed with Cerruti and nourished until 1970; then, buttressed by Galeotti's perfervid reassurances, he decided to make his move as an independent designer...
Beginning usually with a sketch and a bolt of fabric, Armani will work out each of the 500 pieces he designs for his collections, most of which he will offer to buyers in a choice of three colors or fabric combinations. Occasionally, he will wrangle with Galeotti over the practicality of a design ("He will insist I've gone too far, that something is just not salable"), and often he sounds out staff members, whom he calls "my family." But all the designs, even his commissioned uniforms for the Italian Air Force, are Armani's. Unlike some...
...this jacket here. I kept it 'cause the cat peed on it." Barnes, 28, admits to doing "kind of spacy designs. But in a time when kids are playing electronic games, we shouldn't be bringing back Argyle socks." Barnes, like Armani, designs her fabric, but goes so far as to weave a sample swatch on her own hand loom, whipping up wild combos of silk, cotton and wool. "I found that I could sell the wildest fabrics for men if the style wasn't outrageous," she says. Barnes has a flexible definition of outrageous...