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...Renault will soon supply two more upscale models: the Medallion, a $10,000 compact to be introduced in March, and the Alpine, a flashy $30,000 sports car that is due in September. AMC is pinning its highest hopes, though, on a pair of models designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the noted Italian auto stylist, which will be built at the new Canadian plant. They are the Premier, an intermediate-size sedan that will reach showrooms in October, and a sportier coupe, code-named the X-59, which will appear a year later. The Premier and the X-59 have...
...took us seven or eight years to get Dodge into the $10,000-plus range." AMC does not have that long. Cappy has promised Renault a profit by the end of 1988 -- not much time at all when a company is attempting to shift from Joe Lunch Bucket to Giorgetto Giugiaro...
Next year Vitale will add a women's leisure-wear collection designed by his Dutch-born wife Carolin. Also due in 1984 is a line of athletic shoes created by Giorgetto Giugiaro, an Italian industrial designer whose products range from cigarette lighters to cars. Meanwhile, like a runner intent on the distance left to cover, Vitale is looking ahead to increased business in the U.S. "For me, this is the year zero," he says. "Everything we've done before was nothing. Now we take...
...products of the new technologies-from Raymond Loewy's 1948 television set to Giorgetto Giugiaro's 1981 Logica electronic sewing machine-are concentrated by Curator Kathryn Hiesinger in a central space, a circle of dramatic display columns that Nelson calls Stonehenge. Models of Explorer I and a 1976 Satcom satellite hover above. Along the way to the shrine, like altars lining a processional, are huge blowup portraits of the most influential designers of the age. There is Charles Eames, whose chairs, toys, films, buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design...
...Giorgetto Giugiaro, 43, has added an additional dimension to smart looks: ingenious practicality for both consumer and manufacturer. He wants his products not only to look better than the competition but also to work better. Many critics see in Giugiaro the successor to Raymond Loewy (Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives, Pepsodent toothpaste packaging) as the world's leading industrial designer. When Giugiaro was 21, admiring countrymen were already calling him "Geniaccio" (Little Genius...