Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...models breezing down Giorgio Armani's glass-topped runway were having too much fun to put on the mannequin's usual mask of boredom. It was a celestial fashion parade: zephyr-light chiffon shorts worn with a billowing shirt and slightly askew man's tie; immaculately tailored jackets with saucy miniskirts; poolside playsuits that looked as if they might evaporate at any moment. The international crowd of buyers and press applauded throughout the show, the highlight of last week's spring collections in Milan, and at the end stood to cheer the creator of all these...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Cristina Ferrare, 34, sleek fashion model and chatty new co-host of the TV talk show A.M. Los Angeles; from John De Lorean, 59, financially troubled automaker who was acquitted seven weeks ago on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine; on grounds of irreconcilable differences; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. The image of staunch wifely devotion during the four-month trial, Cristina is seeking custody of the children and a share of her husband's disputed assets...
...corner with six to eight employees. Though Jubelirer is gradually turning operations over to his sons Mark, 31, and Steven, 28, he still worries about every move. Says he: "I have to buy heel heights, colors and styles long in advance of the season, and be at the fashion whim of customers. The odds are stacked against me. Every season is a gamble. Sometimes I think my money would be better...
...hours; a million-dollar recreation center at the firm's campus-like headquarters includes two swimming pools, an exercise room, a sauna and tennis and racquetball courts. Even so, Rolm is not as informal as many other Silicon Valley firms, where jeans and open-necked shirts are in fashion. Rolm's senior executives and marketing managers normally wear business suits to work and could easily be mistaken for their counterparts...
...production by August Everding, general manager of the Bavarian State Theater, follows the contemporary European fashion of outfitting Wagner's operas in morally ambiguous shades of gray. His 10th century Brabant is a dour place; pageantry blossoms only during Lohengrin and Elsa's wedding, and the famous swan is banished to the world of the imagination. While this approach has a certain intellectual and historical validity, perhaps the time has come again for a romantic, representational Lohengrin, for Everding's interpretation is fundamentally at odds with the A-major radiance of the score...