Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fretting over international terrorism. Anna Maria Craxi, the stylish and ebullient wife of Italy's Prime Minister, was asked through the usual very proper channels what she would like to see during her visit. Kabuki, perhaps? Tea ceremony? A Buddhist temple? Craxi had another idea: an Issey Miyake fashion show. So, snug within the security perimeter of her hotel, Craxi got a close look at some of the world's most beautiful clothes at a presentation narrated by the designer himself...
...didn't get to town a few weeks earlier. From April 9 through 17, Tokyo played host to its second official season of fashion shows, 33 in all, featuring standout work not only by Miyake and the other two members of the Tokyo triumvirate (Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garons) but by a brace of younger, less familiar talent. Although the so-called Japanese look has got roughed up--even as it has been ripped off--by the fashion establishment, and much of the fashion press tries to write it off and wipe it out, the Tokyo...
...Tokyo shows were organized by a council of premier designers created by Yohji Yamamoto, Kawakubo, Miyake, Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Kansai Yamamoto and Hanae Mori to wedge the country's talent into the traditional fashion route: Milan, Paris, New York. Paris is still the major market, however, even for Tokyo's finest. "Showing there, from the design point of view, is more intense," Kawakubo says. "It's the first presentation of my new work in front of journalists from all over the world." These, however, are not the best of times for any design that makes demands on the initiative and imagination...
...Capitalism, freed of wasteful spending schemes and pepped up by tax cuts, would go on to produce prosperity for all. But his colleagues, up to and including the President, had only the dimmest idea of what it was they were supposed to be doing. They would never let Stockman fashion a program that would actually produce those results...
...just too much. How can a creative genius function amid the aromas of hamburgers and French fries? World-Famous Fashion Designer Valentino is so upset at the opening of Rome's first McDonald's next to his atelier that he has filed suit to have it closed...