Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hint #1: D.C. is not a place where people take stands for fashion. Notorious for uncoordinated outfits that fail miserably in dealing with the swampy heat of Washington summers, professionals stick to suits (for men) and suits (for women). People who put concerted thought into their garments or wear anything not considered "classic," like the only woman wearing capri pants during the morning rush, scream "tourist...
There were also tears down mourners' faces when fashion-industry executive Hamilton South, in his eulogy for Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, praised "her graceful bearing, her special allure" as "a physical expression of an inner fact...
Designers often more associated with whimsy than worry seemed to project some millennial anxieties at last week's couture shows in Paris. John Galliano's models, left, sported hats adorned with dead foxes and pheasants--demonstrating how Dior customers can simultaneously snare a meal and a fashion statement. Alexander McQueen at Givenchy suggested that not only supermodels but also the human race may be extinct next century, exhibiting his clothes on fiber-glass mannequins that briefly popped up from the floorboards. And Paco Rabanne illustrated his prediction that the Mir space station will kill thousands when it crash-lands...
...Solotaroff admires with the awe of a proselyte-grad student, having once been counseled through a bout of panic disorder in a Lathon group. Solotaroff, a journalist, profiles a group that Lathon boasts is the "smartest bunch of people I've ever assembled": Sara, a beautiful former model turned fashion editor crippled in her search for a husband by daddy issues; Rex, a Wall Street jock recovering from an addiction to both coke and a blond-bombshell stripper; Dylan, a rock-'n'-roll sideman and jingle writer in the throes of alcoholism; Jack, a 59-year-old Broadway producer...
...group's previous two albums, The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998) and If You're Feeling Sinister (1997), Matador is bold enough to officially release the first album, which late last year was going at auctions for more than $600. Both were acclaimed by music and fashion magazines alike, and a new album will potentially follow Tigermilk next year...