Word: girbaud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regulations like these also douse the simple joy of dressing, not for success or status, but just as self-expression. Abraham Mora, a junior at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School, has packed away his tie-dye Ts ("so trendy now") in favor of Girbaud jeans and Cole-Haan loafers. "Just look at me," says Michael Barnett, a junior at Washington's Field School who sports a vigorously declarative print shirt. "I'm a wild and crazy guy. With dress codes you don't get to see other people's personalities, just the same old clothes." Brand-name sportswear, from...
Hamnett's influence is strong all over the fashion range, from the well- crafted intricacies of Marithe and Francois Girbaud to the heavy assimilations of Go Silk, a new American line that seems to have been entirely inspired by Hamnett's deft work with lining fabric. "I was called 'possibly the most copied designer working today' in the Observer," Hamnett reflects, managing to sound proud and a touch rueful at the same time. Her clothes are available all around the U.S., but the fullest range can be found at the designer's showcase store on London's Brompton Road. Originally...
...bevy of unisex exercise duds, from tank tops and crotch-clutching shorts to billowing workout pants and pastel sweatshirts. There are T shirts and flight jackets made of parachute silk by the gifted British designer Katharine Hamnett. The elaborate, intricately detailed pants concocted by Marithe and Francois Girbaud, whose various lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric and an abundance of detailing. The simple functionality of jeans has, for the moment, been displaced by daunting arrays of tabs, Velcro closings, double pockets and looping drawstrings, so that the wearer...