Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...custom-made sex apparatus that gets hoisted up the side of Watergate South because it is too big for the elevators--this is the stuff of Great Trash. In addition, there are herbal wraps at Elizabeth Arden and pokes at perfume ("Bunyan could see his obituary . . . Asphyxiated by Giorgio. Hardly fair, after he'd given up amyl nitrate"). The socially crucial pass in review: Donald Trump shows up in yet another novel. And the patrons of Le Cirque. And the Annenbergs. By now, if this were a just world, they would all be earning royalty checks...
...mere Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone declamation, were filled with grave and intense emotion. As with Bernini a century later, we do Stoss a big injustice if we suppose his intimidating virtuosity was in some way hollow. "A miracle in wood," wrote the 16th century Italian art chronicler Giorgio Vasari on seeing one of Stoss's carvings that had found its way to Florence. It was done "with such subtlety as to amaze the world...
...Poiret, the first celebrity couturier, left nothing undesigned, not only what a woman wore but everything she touched. His spiritual heir, Ralph Lauren, clothes not only whole milieus but fantasies as well: the dream of belonging, whether to a club or a board or the ski crowd at Vail. Giorgio Armani influenced the way almost every designer thinks by adapting to classic dictates of menswear. In a long career, Cristobal Balenciaga was one of the very few who were always ahead of the game, but probably no one has figured it out as well as Yves Saint Laurent...
...balance, composition; he's incredible with fabric. He is an artist, yes, more than a fashion designer. I'd like to buy all of his stuff and put it on the wall, to look at when I get depressed." Even among his designer peers, Miyake pulls top points. Giorgio Armani says flat out that "Miyake is a genius. In image, in approach, he goes beyond fashion...
...same is true throughout Europe. A Hermes silk scarf is $70 in Paris, $100 in New York City; a bottle of Dom Perignon 1976 is $23 in Paris, $41 in New York. At the Giorgio Armani boutique on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people...