Word: fioruccis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Barnett, a junior at Washington's Field School who sports a vigorously declarative print shirt. "I'm a wild and crazy guy. With dress codes you don't get to see other people's personalities, just the same old clothes." Brand-name sportswear, from Benetton to Topsider, Adidas to Fiorucci, is coveted. Whatever the label, and however the dress code may read, sameness is a problem in every school...
Although Roth deliberately focuses on male relationships, his incidental portrayal of women is suspicious. Cyd (Kathryn Harold), Blue's five-year live-in who abandons him for another painter; Candy (the late Carole Wayne), the voluptuous "submissive" S & M model for Blue's Fiorucci-style erotic paintings, and Liliane (Carole Laure), Eli's "ideal" woman, who works in a chic Los Angeles art gallery, are shown with such a distrustful distance that we never get far past their appearances. These characters are flat, like blank canvasses on which Blue and Eli project their own dreams and anxieties...
...funky rendition of "Rebel, Rebel." And maybe it has something to do with all the gratuitous semi-nudity, or the baffling pantomimes of torture and death. May be it even explains Leslie Beckhart's stunning array of metallic punk costumes, although they make Peoploids look more like a Fiorucci fashion show than a Washington march...
...million pairs of designer jeans, at prices ranging from $42.50 to $110, will be molded to newly trimmed bodies this year. Beyond labels, the rush to jeans reflects the American penchant for conforming to the image of the body demanded by such clothing. In the mirror, Calvin Klein and Fiorucci simply present what has become America's only authorized posterior...