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Lauren positions his clothing in a lucrative middle ground of consumer sensibility. He lures customers who think high-fashion styling is too faddish and traditional business garb is not quite sporty enough. His Polo purchasers are typically professionals and other upscalers who feel they have more important things to follow than fashion trends. Lauren loyalists sing of simple virtues: comfy elegance, durability, the avoidance of visual shock. They know they can depend on Lauren for a certain smart sameness, a look at once sporty and restrained. "No one understands his customer as truly as Ralph does," says Donna Karan, another...
...huddles for most of the day with fashion assistants and corporate colleagues, at one moment expostulating before a trio of dark-suited subordinates and the next pondering an advertising display among a group of young designers clad in a palette of pale blue variations on his own favorite garb. Lauren pays his employees well and rewards loyalty, but he can be a blunt taskmaster. "He is absolutely terrible about hiding his feelings," says Buffy Birrittella, Polo/Ralph Lauren's vice president for advertising and communications. In an industry notorious for its creative egos, Lauren has long enjoyed a reputation for relative...
Gorman's artwork mostly depicts Navajo women clad in robes or traditional garb. His work is particularly well known in the South-west...
...protest was not without its opponents. One baseball enthusiast dressed in Chicago Cubs garb, who caried a sign reading, "Derek Bok get out of Shea; Cubs number one," briefly clashed with the Mets supporters...
...Kuna woman's traditional dress but to her life. From her first crude attempts at the difficult reverse applique, a Kuna woman will stitch on her mola daily, first for her trousseau, then to sell. Yet when the corps arrived in 1963, Indian women were shedding their artful garb for cheap cotton dresses, and it was feared the unique craft of the mola would be lost, along with the cash it earned the Indians. The volunteers organized a Cooperativa de Productos de Mola. By the time I arrived to organize the eager women on Playon Chico...