Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd shrieked and whistled its approval for such outfits as "Cowboys" (fringed jackets and pony-skin patterns) and "Blackamoors" (gold and silver turbans over satin cocktail suits). The invitation to the show featured a photo of Kelly naked but for a gilt loincloth. "He's very exotic to the French," says Nina Dausset, a former Elle editor. "He has his own folklore...
Kelly's friends know him for his French-fries frenzies and chili-dog cravings. But beware of stereotypes. A Redskins cap planted on his head, the designer can also be found at his favorite restaurant, L'Ambroisie, over a $150 lunch of scallops and Sauterne, waxing eloquent on the merits of white vs. black truffles. Anyone who refers to Kelly's origins as "poor black" is quickly set straight with a portrait of working-class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white...
...drafting table, drawing in deft strokes, crumpling up sketches one after another and sipping hot tea from a tall glass. Interruptions are constant. "No!" he barks, surveying a list of proposed models. "We need someone with de vraies fesses -- a real fanny." The sultry beauties who glower through most French fashion shows must learn to prance, dance, skip and even smile for Kelly's semiannual follies. He dismisses another candidate offhandedly: "Tell her she can do my show if she stops doing drugs." Meanwhile, the designer darts in and out of the sewing room, nipping a tuck here and pinning...
From jazz to Jerry Lewis, American pop culture has often found a welcome audience in France. But nothing could have prepared the French for the latest U.S. export: Les Crados (The Dirty Ones), the Gallic edition of those Stateside sensations, the Garbage Pail Kids. A gruesome gallery of children's bubble-gum cards, Les Crados include such characters as Mathieu Degueu (Matthew Nosepicker), Herve W.C. (Toilet-Face Herve) and Laetitia Pus-de- Bras (Stinky-Pit Letitia...
Licensed to a French journalist by the New York-based Topps company, which launched their American forebears in 1985, Les Crados are suddenly de rigueur among French schoolchildren. Even though they were banned in some schools across the country within two months after their release in January, some 12 million packs have been sold at 40 cents each. But the real grossing-out has taken place among legions of appalled grownups. Les Crados have even come to the attention of Premier Michel Rocard, who said he was "astounded." The National Institute for Consumers' Affairs has been asked to investigate...