Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action in Texas today is more likely to be found in medical research, in computer and space technology. "Texas society is changing profoundly in the same way that all American society is changing," says Historian Fehrenbach. "Texans are beginning to earn a living more in the fashion of other Americans." The state must diversify its economy even more than it already has. Texas may ultimately be redeemed by the kind of people it has always attracted. The dilemma, in part, is how to preserve the old atmosphere of entrepreneurial daring and adventure, while spending the money needed to educate...
...hail, Crimson athletics--perpetually teetering on the cutting edge of sports fashion. Nonetheless, a few questions peek through the pervading glow...
Western design professionals recognize that the Japanese have worked changes in the look and line of conventional clothes as radical as anything that has happened in fashion in the past quarter-century. Notes Laura Sinderbrand, director of the design laboratory at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology: "They were in the forefront of giving us new shapes. They helped us break out of the mold of the set-in sleeve, fitted waistlines, rounded necklines." "Every single fashion designer has copied their skirts, shapes, wraps," comments Alan Bilzerian, who sells a lot of Japanese design in his forward-looking...
...firm grounding, Tokyo needs young design talent to strike out on new paths off the main road that Miyake and the others are still exploring. Too many of the Tokyo shows were, indeed, numbing attempts to run fancy numbers on mainstream fashion, but there is a group of young designers, like Kensho Abe and Atsuro Tayama, who are coming on strong, and others who have already made an indelible impression. Four...
...loud for me.' " Indeed, the designer is swacked on the vibrant, sun-drenched colors of the Mediterranean and says, "Whenever I go to Italy, it always feels like home." Hishinuma has the kind of unbridled talent that with a little trimming along the far edges, could reright the fashion axis by a couple of degrees...