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...with a wall-mounted or swivel-based TV. Bathrooms are also showplaces, filled with big-ticket items like stained-glass shower enclosures, halogen lights, fireplaces, even "morning kitchens" with under- the-counter refrigerator and microwave for heating up muffins or evening snacks. Themed decors are popular, with billowing paisley-fabric-covered windows, flower gardens with plants, wicker furniture, and Lucite etched with cloud formations. In researching an upcoming book on baths, fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg even found a bathroom with two tubs, "so that people can talk to each other while they're getting clean...
...families have one thing to celebrate this grim Yuletide: they are fortunate enough to have stockpiles of food for the difficult months ahead. Russians may not understand the notion of the new commonwealth being created by President Boris Yeltsin, but they can see with their own eyes how the fabric of daily life has been torn to shreds by six years of political and economic upheaval...
...also about money. And troubled retailers and advertising executives love that. Women's Wear Daily reported that Klein plans to spend about $10 million on jeans advertising this year alone. Last week he staged his first all-jeans fashion show -- based on the supplement and featuring a fabric dubbed "dirty denim" -- in New York City. Magazine publishers, buffeted by an industry-wide decline of 10.4% in ad pages, are also heartened. Images from the supplement will be appearing as ads in various magazines for months to come...
...house of Chanel has lent its great international cachet to upstart denim. German-born couturier Karl Lagerfeld's romance with the fabric is a weapon in his war against what he calls "the diktats of fashion," whereby certain garments and accessories can be worn only in particular settings -- silk for splendor, denim for fun. In his designs for Chanel, the maestro is mixing up materials -- tweed, denim, grosgrain -- with such sleight of hand that some of his efforts look more formal than his variations on the house's classic...
...well ahead of the game, made jersey into a chic material in the '20s. In the '30s gingham was popular with American designers, and it's turning up again this year. Today rayon is undergoing a renaissance, from something that made up Harry Truman's sport shirts to the fabric of favor for mimicking silk among most top-of-the-line designers...