Word: fashional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clip, a quartz fashion watch set into a clothespin-like plastic clip that is designed to be worn almost anywhere except the wrist, has captured markets in 20 countries. The clip sells at about the same price as a Swatch and comes in 60 models, with such names as Tutti Frutti and Panther. Following the European debut of Le Clip in mid-1986, retailers sold more than 1 million within twelve months. The watch has now traveled to the U.S., where the manufacturer aims to sell a total of 750,000 within a year. Le Clip is hottest in California...
...fall collections just unveiled by Paris couturiers leave no doubt: something is up on the fashion runway, and it is more than hemlines. After several drowsy years, couture is in again by being far-out again. The new high-fashion collections have exploded in a colorful array of stylized, theatrical creations, and in the process have stolen back much of the action from the swaggering ready-to-wear industry. The relentlessly ballyhooed miniskirts, to be sure, are riding high -- very high. But in addition, the couture lines offer daring, bewitching and wacky costumes that pay homage to, . among other things...
...roll call is heartbreaking. Broadway's top musical showman, Michael Bennett, dead last month at 44. Manhattan Art Dealer Xavier Fourcade, 60. Fashion Designers Willi Smith, 39, and Perry Ellis, 46. Makeup Artist Way Bandy, 45. Charles Ward, 33, who left the American Ballet Theater to go Dancin' on Broadway. Production Designer Bruce Weintraub (Prizzi's Honor), 33. Allan Estes, 29, founder of San Francisco's Theater Rhinoceros. An appalling 27 deaths in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. To list them and their dying or dead brothers is to compile a journal of the plague years...
...great flood of paper rushing in upon him. None of the rest of us can imagine surviving the demands of such a career; Shawn flourishes." So wrote Brendan Gill a decade ago of longtime New Yorker Editor William Shawn, whose endless capacity for work and relentless curiosity helped fashion that magazine into a weekly mine of essay, fiction and humor. But last spring, after serving 35 years as editor, Shawn, 79, was ousted by the magazine's new owner, S.I. Newhouse of Conde Nast. Many thought Shawn's career was over. Not so. At the invitation of President Roger Straus...
...after midnight, Dukakis stood with his exhausted 18- year-old daughter Kara on the airport tarmac in Dallas. For the first time all day, the candidate noticed that Kara was teetering on high heels. "Why do you wear those foolish shoes?" he asked, baffled that his child would choose fashion over function. "Why don't you wear running shoes or something sensible like that...