Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deserve an Emmy for her dramatic acting, but who can deny her talents as a first-rate comedienne? For years she has tackled Erica Kane with a mockingly forced resoluteness as Erica has gone about collecting ex-husbands through various careers as a supermodel (an occasion for Mahogany-inspired fashion-shoot montages), a cosmetics executive and editor of a news magazine called Tempo...
While there may be mild irony in an upscale department store peddling a look that is based in part on thrift-store chic, fashion has long fed on pop-culture events for inspiration. Diane Keaton's shapeless slouch gear in Annie Hall and Jennifer Beals' off-the-shoulder Flashdance sweat shirts both set looks that lasted for months on the streets. Bloomingdale's plays the game, selling 500 yellow trench coats a la Dick Tracy in 1990. On the other hand, the store's executives weren't quite quick enough to lock in Alicia Silverstone and last year's Clueless...
...translating the look commercially, designer Ady Gluck-Frankel of Necessary Objects shows how fast the market can react, both to a source of inspiration and to the latest fashion fads. In a collection priced from $30 to $60, she goes with the runway news of just a month or two ago: vinyl; witchy holographic effects; leopard patterns; hot citrus limes, lemons and orange, the season's primary colors; and faux-naive flower prints--Liberty as interpreted by Prada...
Says Bloomingdale's fashion director Kalman Ruttenstein, who dreamed up the scheme: "You put these hot trends together." But Gluck-Frankel disagrees. "You don't put anything together or try to match things. That's the downtown feel." Oddly, they are both right. Sighs Ruttenstein: "No one young wears head-to-toe anything anymore...
...sort of tribal-rock look. The clothes are cut tight to the body, not to say skimpy. Minis are micro, midriffs bare. Pinpricked Airtex, borrowed from athletes' uniforms, reigns here. Perhaps the chicest outfit in the group is a plain black vinyl shift. The very latest fashion fabric, polyester treated to appear holographic, appears in pretty iridescent tops. Daphne Rubin-Vega, who plays Mimi in the show and models the clothes here, gets to the point when she says, "They're really bohemian." Well, boho goes uptown...