Word: fendi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also a little reminiscent of Midas'. Unlike most designers, who work under a single label, Lagerfeld goes three ways. He designs the couture and ready-to-wear lines for Chanel in Paris. For Fendi in Rome he does furs and some couture, as well as swank ready-to-wear. And right now his first collection under his own name is making its debut all over the world. At prices ranging from $400 for a silk blouse to $4,000 for a nifty evening number that shifts along a woman's body like a Slinky, it is moving very...
Such a multiplicity of restless talents commands and affords a variety of resting places. Lagerfeld has one in Paris that looks more like a palace. He also has a hideaway in Rome-handy for all those trips to see the Fendi sisters-and a house in Brittany, christened Grands Champs (Large Fields). Oh, yes, and there is the apartment in Monaco. The Monaco digs are hypermodern, done predominantly in the bright style of the innovative designers known as the Memphis group. The setting, like Lagerfeld's fashion, is both nervy and funny: a silk-cushioned "conversation pit" shaped like...
When David Wolfe of Neiman's went to Rome to buy the extravagant furs that Karl Lagerfeld turns out for Fendi, he and his assistants practiced a serviceable combination of hard business, constructive gossip and applied technology. Wolfe nixed a deluxe fur that was cut like a pullover sweater because "we have to consider those big bouffant Texas hairdos. You can't expect clients to have to drag their furs over them." A dyed gray beaver jacket, with collar, pockets and cuffs furrowed like a plowed field, is "ideal for Mrs. Bowing." (All names have been changed...
...only a trim pants-skirt and navy blouson but also a knit pullover colored wine red and gold, the official city colors. The policewomen were enthusiastic, the press enchanted. Gucci created a leather blouson and helmet that looked as if it belonged on a Flash Gordon storm trooper. The Fendi sisters, working as usual with Karl Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might have worn for a brisk constitutional on the moors. The other contenders-Milan's Mila...
...living things," insists Claude Montana. Accordingly, his line of racy, kiked-up cycle-slut couture (a leather ensemble can go for as much as $3,000) is presented with some of the most elaborate and amusing theatrics in Paris. Karl Lagerfeld, whose beautifully wrought designs for Chloé, Fendi and Chanel Couture continue to bring the press to its knees, is characteristically canny and bemused. "People have just lost interest in seeing dresses in normal circumstances. They have been trained in recent years to view them onstage as part of a production...