Word: fendi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smelly minefield at that. More and more perfume manufacturers are relying on not just provocative texts and evocative images but a sample of the real thing. Turn the page, break open the "scent strip" and get a full blast of Giorgio of Beverly Hills; or Calvin Klein's Obsession; Fendi, the passion of Rome; or Faberge's McGregor. "The fragrance business is so highly competitive," says Melisande Congdon-Doyle, director of cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harper's Bazaar, "that the only way to get the scent before the noses of people is to go to them directly...
...main challenge is to find some crack in our present theories," said Professor of Physics Roy I. Schwitters at the symposium, "The Ultimate Physical Theories: Progress and Prospects." Schwitters will head the world's largest particle accelerator soon to open at the Fendi National Laboratories outside of Chicago...
...panelists were enthusiastic about the prospect of building a particle accelerator even larger than the Fendi lab's. The new accelerator would have a circumference of 50 miles and would cost several billion dollars...
...said it best, but he was not delivering any new message by stopping skirts at mid-thigh. Legs were the hit of Milan. Designers sent insufficiently willowy models right back to the agency and ordered up more and longer legs. Almost every show had minis: Karl Lagerfeld, designing the Fendi collection, made them up in a witchy little F print of his own devising that managed to lend the house's ubiquitous initial some charm. Sexy Gianni Versace went straight to the point and crafted brief siren suits. At Complice, Claude Montana did seemingly endless variations on the mini...
...make him smile. He frets over whether to have a nose job. His hands always seem to be in motion, partly because he is always moving his sleeves to hide them. That restlessness also colors his imagination, which can be entrepreneurial, as in his double-F logo for the Fendis that appears, like a ranch brand, on all their leather goods; elegant, as in his sumptuous evening wear; or easy, as in some of the simple, savvy suits he did for this fall's Karl Lagerfeld line. He grabs ideas everywhere. He designed a Fendi ermine cape based...