Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theater: cramped and slightly eccentric, with forest green walls and a bowl of M&M's on a table in the reception room. Lauren's personal office contains some of his favorite props: a wood-burning fireplace, a fleet of toy racing cars, family photographs and piles of fabric swatches. He often wears a studiedly scruffy uniform: a cotton work shirt, faded Levi's and well-worn cowboy boots. "This is who I am," he claims...
...encourages second starts, says Alan Rypinski. He made one fortune producing a protective coating for vinyl and rubber called Armor All, stumbled financially with an auto boutique and a fast-food spaghetti business, and is now trying to pile up another bundle selling a product that removes wrinkles from fabric. Says Rypinski: "It's pretty easy to recover. There's so much going...
...that's the message Lady Liberty doesn't deliver when the immigrant first sees her. Success in the United States means becoming American. Fortunately, in some areas of the country the culture changes accompanying the entry of immigrants have altered the fabric of American life. At Harvard that transformation has hardly happened...
...class can rightly be portrayed as a natural fabric about to change. At the time we had no inkling. The headlines about riots and Kennedy ordering troops to Cuba were just rumblings to us," says Richard B. Barthelmes '61, advertising director for Gourmet magazine...
YOSHIKI HISHINUMA, 27, is an anomaly. His clothes, rendered in magisterial folds of fabric and silhouettes that wed high drama to gut-level rock-'n'-roll spirit, appear to Western eyes to be the most formally Japanese. They have the reckless ebullience of decade-old Miyake, and they use the sort of unconventional material (like fishing line) that has been associated with the cutting edge in Tokyo. You can buy them in New York and Chicago, Hong Kong and Kuwait, but, Hishinuma says with some bemusement, they are "avant-garde and not very commercial," so they are not for sale...