Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening last month, in the barn of a farm in Bellville, Ohio, about a dozen fox farmers stood around, hands in belts, watching a video. On the screen, a bevy of thin, gorgeous, haughty women strode down the catwalk, all wearing something furry. It was a compilation of high-fashion shows from Milan, and while the farmers were more bemused than impressed, that tape may represent their best hope for a lucrative future...
...fashion industry, never a business that espouses moderation, has re-embraced fur with a vengeance. Fur, always a cyclical business, had its best years in the mid-'80s but in the early '90s was hit hard by a combination of warm winters, a recession, a luxury tax and a vehement and well-orchestrated anti-fur movement, all of which drove home the message that fur was a distasteful and excessive luxury. But as with most things in fashion, the trend faded. In 1985, 45 designers were using fur. This year that figure is closer to 200. Giorgio Armani, Badgley Mischka...
...Sandy Parker, the industry's eminence grise and the publisher of a fur newsletter, Sandy Parker Reports, "younger people weren't anti-fur; they were just ignoring fur." It couldn't be more different now. "The way designers were cutting it and using it got the attention of the fashion industry," says Sasha Charnin Morrison, a marketing director for Harper's Bazaar. "The eye was being re-trained to look at fur again...
...International Design Center. Since then it has been inviting established designers as well as hot young ones to an all-expenses-paid five-day getaway at its turn-of-the-century thatched mansion in the green hills and yellow fields of Sandbjerg, north of Copenhagen. It has also targeted fashion schools, taking trunkloads of furs to final-year students at schools like London's influential Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design. The aim of both programs was to get designers to think mink...
...also helped designers get over any fur hang-ups with an education program. One of Saga's greatest successes has been to create fur that is lighter and thinner. It has made a fox-fur jacket that weighs less than a pound. And if there is one thing fashion people like, it's thin...