Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem of bisexuality is especially poignant in the world of the arts and entertainment, where sexual exoticism in general is more tolerated than in society as a whole. Virtually every arts institution has suffered its losses, and the community is on guard. "Anyone who's dating in the fashion community worries," says a lingerie model with the Ford agency. "You just don't know." Before engaging in sex with a man, she dates him five or six times, and, in an effort to protect herself, asks for a complete sexual history and finally insists that he use a condom...
Fantasy, a sacred word in the fashion lexicon, scarcely covered last week's parade of giddy gambits. Some of the dresses looked conventional in front, only to reveal a naughty minicrini at the derriere, highlighted perhaps by flowers or a bow that would do credit to Fergie herself. There were several variations on the bustle, insouciant and not very subtle. One bouffant day costume featured layers of huge polka dots overlapping like the tiles on a roof. And the hats! Florid Creole cones, luscious layers of peonies topped by an upended straw boater. Befruited skimmers and lacy lampshades. Carmen Miranda...
Lacroix discovered his vocation rummaging through his grandmother's attic in Arles, where he lost himself amid stacks of fashion magazines dating back to the 19th century. One day at Sunday lunch Lacroix was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Said he: "Christian Dior." He attended the University of Montpellier, studying classics and art history, and then went to Paris to train as a museum curator at the Ecole du Louvre. Then, in 1973, he attended a party largely because he had been told the food would be good. There he met his wife Francoise Rosenthiel...
...original designer and the third generation of his family to run the business. De Mouy was all of 29 and determined "to see that, three generations after me, it is still a family house." His plan: install a designer who would restore the house to the pinnacle of fashion. Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Bohan of Dior both spent apprenticeships there, but these young talents eventually moved on. Patou was too conservative then, devoting most of its energy to its lucrative perfumes, especially...
...Mouy was impressed at once by Lacroix, because of his "complete knowledge of the past, not only in fashion but in art and architecture." Lacroix's charter was to design two collections a year, according to his impulse and vision. No strings were attached, least of all purse strings. His first sketches to the millinery atelier caused shock and consternation. "Sometimes it is necessary to disturb people in order to push forward," he observes. Since he refines his ideas slowly and deliberately, most of today's headliners have antecedents in earlier collections...