Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems in persuading the Med School faculty to accept the full plan, and the realization that it would be difficult to fashion a comprehensive college-med school-hospital program, led organizers to settle for revamping the traditional four years of medical training for no more than 25 students in each class...
...however, it was. Then the Haight was not trendy but poor, a neighborhood near the Black ghetto where students and other non-mainstreamers gathered for cheap rents and a sense of community. The strands of the new thought and life were there, too: folk music, hip poetry, Mod fashion, Indian philosophy made popular by Beat writers and Martin Luther King...
...group of 6500 students polled, 31 percent said the style made famous by L.L. Bean is the hottest at their school, with 17 percent of the students rating an "earthy" bohemian look as the most popular. High fashion, athletic, and punk looks each got about a 10 percent response...
...amplitude of Miyake's gifts, of all the discipline, restlessness and romance of his free-ranging creative spirit. Challenge, whether in his native Japanese, his fluent French or his serviceable English, is a favorite word: he uses it as a prod, a goal, a signpost and an explanation. Fashion fits into his vocabulary only as a practicality. "The semantics aren't important," he explains. "But in Japanese, we have three words: yofuku, which means Western clothing; wafuku, which means Japanese clothing; and fuku, which means clothing. It can also mean good fortune, a kind of happiness. People ask me what...
There, flourishing, and even expanding a little. Miyake is just about to pull off an exercise in the theoretical physics of fashion by moving ahead as he turns a little backward. He is launching a new line called Permanente, an excavation of his creative past that probably has no precedent in all of fashion. Most designers pack their old work off to some commercial attic; Miyake will turn his attic into a shop that trades evenly between past and present. Anyone who spots a vintage number on a Miyake fan and comes up with the familiar run-on question...