Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Italian designers are demonstrating their typically confused attitude toward the modern man. Giorgio Armani has given the tank-top his official seal--whoops, eagle--of approval, allowing the fashion-conscious male to bare all that Nautilus-forged muscle with a clean conscience...
...move to new jobs in different cities and demanded fat pay hikes that put European companies at a disadvantage against U.S. and Japanese competitors. While not accepting the responsibility for joblessness, many labor leaders recognize that their unions must adapt to the new realities of international competition. Says Giorgio Benvenuto, head of the Italian Union of Labor: "If the old unions fail to modernize their antiquated policies, they will be out of the mainstream...
...page from Italian Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari's "Libro de' Disegni"--purchased last summer by New York real estate developer fan Woodner--headlines a group of Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, which opened last weekend at the Fogg...
...wristwatches have been often on view in period movies like Chinatown and Chariots of Fire. They also show up with some regularity in fashion layouts of Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The oldtimers first started to become salable, however, with the late '70s interest in retro clothes and in reaction to the flood of maddeningly accurate quartz and digital models available at the local pharmacy. "You can get a wafer-thin watch that keeps perfect time for $20 at a dime store," scoffs Sig Shonholtz, who runs the Second Time Around Watch Co. in Los Angeles. "So what...
...brimming with ideas; others are friends of long standing; none is over 32. Gaultier may be an iconoclast, but he has a deep and sometimes surprising respect for other designers. One would expect him to "adore" Vivienne Westwood, the earth mother of punk fashion. But Gaultier also "adores" Giorgio Armani and Jean Muir, and speaks with respect of the old master Yves Saint Laurent. He spends about 85% of his time working, and rides the Metro both to commute and to store up ideas...