Word: furred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the venerable house of Chanel shows a black fur hat the size and shape of Mickey Mouse's ears, as it did this spring, something is wrong. Lagerfeld's other japes included fuzzy fake-fur skirts shaped unmistakably like muffs that barely covered the buttocks. He has made the classic Chanel suit look tartier by the year, a crude parody of itself. At this point it would be preferable -- and more courageous -- to retire it altogether; versions of the design go back to the '20s, so the suit may have run its course. Lagerfeld has also vulgarized the Chanel...
...overtaken the runways. So have other tired gambits, which can only encourage a woman to stay out of the stores and wear what she already has in the closet. The metallic look is suffering from fatigue, but it's still in favor. And nobody looks good in disheveled fake fur, now everywhere. The effect is to present a woman as an unclipped poodle who just swam a stream and had a good, vigorous shake...
...businessman, who had invited me to accompany him on his five-week foray through Russia, where he introduced me with deliberate vagueness as his associate, struggled back into his heavy coat and fur hat and pushed out the door into the frozen night. His shopping trip had only begun, and there were plenty of other bargains to be found...
...perhaps hampered by statelier-than-thou choreography. If they awarded prizes for costumes, she would have prevailed. Her dress, designed as always by Vera Wang, had the kind of unobtrusive elegance that enhances rather than jars a performance. By contrast, Baiul wore a fussy pink concoction trimmed with fake fur that broke her line. Most of the other dresses were nightclub glitz...
...Spielberg's list. The director told himself, "I want that great actor in this movie," and a month later, Neeson was standing outside the gates of Auschwitz on the first day of shooting. "Trains and dogs and people," Neeson recalls. "Bitterly cold. And me dressed in this wonderful fur-lined jacket...