Word: fendi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking) is the more accessible of the two. (The other book, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero [Oxford], while philosophically deeper, is self-consciously obscure; its author, Robert Kaplan, writes in Zen koans and could have penned the Fendi tag line...
...although the Gap could not persuade Wiles to pose, other advertisers have succeeded in working mathematics into their marketing messages. Merrill Lynch hailed the Fermat proof in its "human achievement" ads; and Fendi, declaring in Pidgin English that "a woman is theorem which cannot be solved," introduced its Theorema line of enigmatic fragrance, body lotion and bath...
...look at fur today as I look at a fabric," says Valentino. "There is no difference. I use tiny borders of mink as a ruffle in my wool suitings." From trim, fur has migrated to sportswear. Versace has a mink-lined biker boot, Prada has a mink vest, Fendi and others have fur skirts, Michael Kors has silver fox leg warmers and, for the ultimate in dressing down and up at the same time, Jean Paul Gaultier is offering a fur-lined denim jacket. Fur is targeted to such a young market that there are even furs for children...
...winning the image battle everywhere except Britain, even though homegrown supermodel Naomi Campbell modified her slogan from "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" to "I'd rather go naked than wear fur--until it becomes fashionable again," when she wore a huge bourbon-colored fur for Fendi last year. The public is also showing signs of protest fatigue. In the past, fur activists who freed minks from farms got sympathy. Now they are prosecuted...
...time" and spends her nights watching Bette Davis videos. But riding in her limo recently, Blige is, at first, a little wary of questioning. She comes alive, though, when we make a stop at the showroom of French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping at the pricey places--Versace, Fendi, Chanel. Her taste in clothes, however, isn't always as sure as her taste in music. She tries on a floor-length purple coat that looks like something Rick James would have worn to Louis XIV's coronation. "Oh, my God!" she exclaims, loving it. Next, a lumpy bright orange...