Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clothes are selling briskly. Bergdorf Goodman says it took $330,000 worth of orders in two days. Saks Fifth Avenue bought 27 styles, or most of the line. "I'm not sure I've ever seen quite as much of a phenomenon," says Ellin Saltzman, the store's fashion director, who remembers the '60s frenzies over Rudi Gernreich and Andre Courreges. Of such skyrocketing designers, she says, "I think it's scary for them...
...home was, on the whole, a comfortable cocoon for a little boy who can remember sketching all day long when he was three. The designer-to-be was particularly impressed by his grandfather, whom he describes as "very arrogant, like an actor." It is now a secure part of fashion legend that one day the old man asked Christian what he would like to be when he grew up. "Christian Dior," he shot back...
...thought was daring." Christian was taxed with designing costumes for their amateur shows. He traces his enduring preoccupation with the turn of the century to this early research; at one point he plotted out a season-by-season directory of changes in the minutiae of fin-de-siecle fashion...
Rosensthiel was already in the fashion and publicity business. Lacroix studied at the Louvre and the Sorbonne with the idea of becoming a museum curator. The young pair prowled museums, went to the opera and bucketed around Europe student style. "Christian was curious about the Mediterranean, so we traveled to Greece and Spain and Venice in a real vacation spirit," says Rosensthiel. "He used to keep little travel notebooks, full of notes and sketches...
...fashion story of Lacroix at Patou is one of triumph, the human one contains some sorrow. Jean de Mouy, then 29, had just taken over his family's perfume business when he hired the untried young designer. De Mouy's long shot triumphed, and the House of Patou was restored to its glory days of the '30s. But Picart and Lacroix made demands. They wanted to embark on ready-to-wear as soon as possible. Says Lacroix: "I was creating designs, but people couldn't afford them. I started suffering." About his chimerical designer, De Mouy is philosophical: "I still...