Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it was over, makers of fleur-de-lis leather dried their soaked goods on the riverbanks, jewelers dug with their hands through tons of mud looking for their wares. In his wrecked work shop, Fashion Designer Emilio Pucci, who said his loss may reach $1,000,000, shrugged, "I personally will begin again"; but he noted sadly that many of Florence's artisans could never recover without outside aid. Meanwhile, Italian helicopters flew"800 missions a day to supply badly needed water and food. In Florence and its outskirts, Italian troops destroyed the carcasses of some...
...miniskirt in London had already risen as high on the thigh as Tarzan's loincloth when Designer Mary Quant, 32, grandam of Chelsea's fashion hippies, decided to hike the hems still higher. The new skirts flutter 11 in. above the knees, and require about as much cloth to make as a nice Victorian handkerchief. But the textile industry can take some heart. Mary has designed demure little matching boxer shorts for the birds to wear with their demi-minis. "They are the logical answer," she says, "for skirts so short that girls are showing everything...
...characteristic approach to the problems of living, artists develop a manner of handling visual problems which characterizes all their work. Many artists commit themselves to presenting solution to problems of representation with a specific style. It seems particularly true, in the twentieth century's rapidly shifting waves of fashion, that many of these artists capsize and sink...
Manet's decision to turn upside down the stuffy, artificial traditions then in fashion in the official salons now seems less the act of a revolutionary, more the act of a man in love with reality and with his own time. He had schooled himself arduously by copying the greats...
...other than the novelist Zola, the poets Baudelaire and Mallarme, the painters Monet, Degas and Renoir. He owed them all a debt, but most of all he trusted his own vision. "One must be of one's time," he said, "do what one sees without worrying about the fashion." Mallarme stated their common goal succinctly: "To paint not the thing, but the effect it produces...