Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Katya Mikhulskaya giggles as she shows off her outfit -- a red-and-gold- braid ed army jacket paired with a frilly white lace skirt -- then coquettishly pulls up her hem to reveal black knee-high jackboots. Mikhulskaya, 23, developed her theory of fashion from years of riding the Moscow metro, where she saw women wearing a tasteless hodgepodge because the state-controlled fashion industry had made it impossible for them to put together well-coordinated wardrobes. "When it comes to fashion in Moscow," she says, "a sense of humor is especially important." Her fellow designer, Katya Fillipova, 29, pokes...
Mikhulskaya and Fillipova are emerging leaders in the avant-garde underworld of Soviet fashion design. They labor over sewing machines in cramped apartments shared by husbands and children; every drawer is crammed with fabric, zippers and buttons scrounged up in state stores and weekend flea markets. Thanks to their sardonic use of hallowed Soviet symbols, the two women cannot be members of the Society of Soviet Designers, and their styles are not bought by Dom Modeli, the state fashion center...
Several members of the team commented that the wind did bother them a little, but that didn't prevent the Crimson from blowing the Quakers away in convincing fashion, 8-1, at Beren Tennis Center in its first EITA match of the season...
While Kelly builds a celebrity clientele with the likes of Bette Davis, Paloma Picasso and Jane Seymour, he works hard to keep a high profile: off to a fashion-power AIDS banquet one night, to the opening of Regine's new nightclub another. The publicity game is paying off. Licensing negotiations for Kelly furs, sunglasses and jewelry are under way. The designer is looking for rental space to house a museum for his collection of 6,000 black dolls. Paris Match featured a six-page spread of Grace Jones posing in Kelly's clothes. Michael Douglas stopped by to chat...
PROFILE: An American fashion designer in Paris...