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...revolution can be seen at the Royal Academy in London, where 86 paintings and seven sculptures from the collection of Gabrielle and Werner Merzbacher are on show until mid-November. The Merzbachers, both German-born, moved from the U.S. in 1964 to Switzerland, where Werner, then 36, joined the fur business begun by Gabrielle's paternal grandfather Bernhard Meyer. In the 1970s, the Merzbachers began putting together one of the best private collections of 20th century art. They already had inherited some great pictures from Mayer, who owned important works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Matisse...
...Christmas he surprised Ginny with an electric pencil sharpener. "They were always so clearly the wrong thing, but it was just so funny that he'd taken the time and thought to buy them," says Hilary, who one year received a stuffed dolphin with tie-dyed fur. "When I came down for Christmas this year, something was very off. For the first time in my life, I had gotten every single thing I wanted, and then I really knew...
...look like Rico Suave. Among the horrors she endured were hula lessons ("Girls, I'm still seeing wiggly fingers! Move the whole hand!"), an abominable first job selling jewelry for grumpy hippies, and visits to the scary cat lady next door ("Have some peanut brittle, dear. Just pick the fur off if you're fussy, but it won't hurt you none...
...vegetarian really good for you, and does it, as some of its adherents claim, help save the planet? How did this trend go from odd to mainstream? It all tied in, too, with animal rights, which could be the next big social movement in American life. The anti-fur campaign, organic dairies, free-range chickens--they strike me as harbingers of something big to come, maybe not in a decade but during this century. Although I admire the commitment of the animal-rights folks--except for their great moral lapse on animal testing of drugs that can fight aids...
...over tulle skirts - harked back to those elegance-first days. Sandwiched between the classic old guard and flashy new are the middle-aged guard, who first made their mark in the 1980s. Christian Lacroix, recently named designer of the Pucci label, showed a collection brimming with confidence. Feathers, sequins, fur, leather - as one fashion editor said, it was "like the model walked through the studio and everything stuck to her." But there was discipline to the decoration, and the result was a show to out-haute the best of them. Like Lacroix, Gaultier mixes age-old techniques - embroidery, appliqu?, draping...