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...based in Dodgeville, Wis., chose the firm to create French and Italian versions of its American website last year. Says Sam Taylor, vice president of Lands' End international operations: "There's a feeling we want to come through in the copywriting when it's translated." For a women's gingham-check swimsuit, marketed to French customers, Berlitz modified the catalog copy to read, "L'effet B.B. assure!" (the B.B. look guaranteed!), a reference to Brigitte Bardot, who made gingham fashionable...
...contributing editor (job description: "providing trend updates, supplying party reports"). "Her designs are like Barbie-slash-Hello Kitty with Liberty of London mixed in," gushes designer Betsey Johnson. "Kind of Brigitte Bardot and beyond." Translation: low-cut frocks made of girlish fabrics such as dotted swiss and gingham, in pale pinks and blues that run completely counter to minimalist chic. Even her ex is applauding her new venture. "I'm a big fan," Seinfeld told TIME...
...Mama's Family:" Iola and her gingham dresses...
1970s Victorianish dresses of calico and gingham with ruffled hems
Pomp and ceremony embarrass her, even after six years in the lime-light following her 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for the Heidi Chronicles, a New York Drama Critics Circle Prize, and numerous other accolades. For "An Evening with Wendy," the Gingham armchairs and end-table supplied by Harvard's Office for the Arts were far more fitting than the usual lectern setting of her speaking tour...