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WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR DRESS? When American designers strutted their stuff at the spring collections last week, some unusual motifs emerged. Diane Von Furstenberg showed a dress festooned with marijuana leaves. Miguel Adrover, a newcomer, splattered a frock with newspaper and paint, and Antilika tried to get at the essence of a woman through dresses decorated with a baby or a pregnant-looking belly. Maybe she should start a maternity line...
...sides of buses and consequently in the public consciousness that it has become tremendously difficult for young designers to break through. It says something about the contemporary American fashion scene that one of the most publicized stories of the past few seasons is the re-emergence of Diane Von Furstenberg, who has come back offering the same wrap dress she unveiled...
...About 300 of Wall Street's and Hollywood's most powerful and famous (and about 100 of their glittery offspring). This year: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Andy Grove, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Diane Sawyer (a longtime friend of Allen's), John Malone, Geraldine Laybourne, Diane von Furstenberg and Jerry Levin...
...after a divorce, while a man's rises 10%--although again, younger women are more likely to have careers to fall back on. For one thing, the man's income is usually higher to begin with, so he can afford better lawyers during the settlement. For another, says Frank Furstenberg, sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of a study on children of divorce, "women continue to support the children, and child support doesn't make up the difference." Two-thirds of all divorces involve minor children, and according to Columbia law professor Martha Fineman, author...
...offers in the past year from both Edgar Bronfman Jr. (to run MCA Universal) and Michael Eisner (to join him as No. 2 man at Disney). "Barry has had these unbelievable silver trays offered to him, and he's always said no," says his best friend, designer Diane Von Furstenberg. Why no? "He's not a pig," she explains. "It's not about greed with him. It's ambition, it's vision, and that makes him different and makes him a nice person." An interesting theory: ambition leads to niceness...