Word: fichus
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...spring and summer collection he unveiled last week has many traditional Lacroix touches, if such a short career can have traditions. There are whopping cabbage roses, short lengths and, in the lace-printed fichus, references to Arles, in Lacroix's native Provence. Some expectable hoots were present: bamboo sunglasses, giant hatpins, whimsical buttons. But Lacroix is changing. The collection was better focused than his 1987 offering. And following the advice of his favorite designer, the late Jules-Francois Crahay of Lanvin, he planted some clues to the future. They included high-waisted flowing pants and some variegated lengths...
...charming lecherdemain in the scenes involving Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, a sexless performance from Caron and a lifeless one from Jourdan, a wonderful happy ending which wittily demonstrates that life has more tricks than an old tart, a singable (though not memorable) musical score, and enough bibelots, furbelows, fichus, berthas, boas, sconces, socles, credenzas, teapoys and Canterburies to deliriously overdecorate this most ornate of the cinema's recurrent funerals...
...retrim last year's dresses, and to trick up this year's limited wardrobe, 2) to allure and astonish men, who are anciently susceptible to a frill at the throat. To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs...
Painting was fun for Auguste Renoir all his life long. Women were his never-failing subjects. He painted them in bustles and fichus, gaily sipping aperitifs in cafés along the Seine, waltzing on the crowded floor of the Moulin de la Galette, undressing, getting out of bed, bathing, fixing their hair, sunning themselves naked. His brushes gloated over their rosy curves, imparted to their flesh a luminous, porcelainlike transparency unequaled since the days of Rubens...
...indispensable to his political position-Christian of Kurland, mercenary soldier, master of the art of war, gentleman of fabulous wealth and sophisticated Versailles breeding. Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus. His soldiers adored him, all Europe feared him. Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack." Aside from legitimacy there was only one thing that he wanted, and that the hand of Leopold's fiancee, fair Eleanora. In return he promised...
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