Word: fashional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What matters in this new off-Broadway collaboration by writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (Three Postcards) is not the literal truth but the beguilingly hallucinatory fashion in which one vision blends into another. In an age when absurdism is yesteryear's avant-garde, a handful of American playwrights work this rowdy territory. Only Lucas and Rene understand how to make something beautiful out of a dream walking...
Rajballie responded to the switch in the same fashion as he did to the original move--he scored...
...sources close to the fashion firm of James Galanos also say Mrs. Reagan has continued to borrow dresses. "If it's something she needs to borrow, she does borrow, but otherwise she buys," said Pat Jones, an assistant to Galanos. Chris Blazakis, who worked closely with Galanos since 1982 and was executive vice president of Galanos Originals from 1983 until 1985, insists that Galanos had told him that Mrs. Reagan generally did not pay for dresses and that the only time she returned one was when she wanted it repaired. Blazakis, who left the Galanos firm on friendly terms...
...photographs taken since 1982 showing Mrs. Reagan wearing outfits by such couturiers as Galanos, Hayes, Bill Blass and Adolfo. He has estimated prices for each outfit. A buyer for a leading department store independently verified the Blazakis estimates on a representative sample of 80 of these photographs. The two fashion experts placed a retail value on each ensemble; they ranged from $1,500 to more than $20,000. Both estimated the value of the whole collection at between...
...Reagan announced on Jan. 14, 1982, that she would consider the dresses accepted in 1981 as loans. Beyond that, she would select the best and give them to 13 museums to promote the fashion industry. According to the selected museums, the last such donation was in 1982. In February of that year she said she had told all her favorite designers that she would no longer accept any dresses on loan. The First Lady does not appear to have kept that promise...