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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young: Gaultier is 32, Sprouse 31. They have, separately, taken fashion off into fresh territory. Gaultier has seized and made salable the dithering extravagances of London street fashion. Hot colors over black? Short skirts? Check out Sprouse for all that. He was hiking up hemlines and pouring Day-Glo over the fashion palette while women were still trying to figure out what the Japanese craze was all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Bad Boys of Fashion | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Sprouse's new collection has real butt-tickler skirts ("Everything is six inches above the knee or more") and dresses that seem to have been hit by a blitz of citrus bombs. There are four new Day-Glo colors, including furious fuchsia and lightning yellow. "We're going crazy testing all of them," says Sprouse, "but that's the best thing. My colors really glow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Bad Boys of Fashion | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

HARVARD IS FULL of annoyances during reading and exam periods--besides the exams themselves, of course. Someone always finishes the semester before you, making your plight seem all the worse. Dining halls echo with a thousand whines. One of the worst of these plagues comes in three Day-Glo colors: the highlighter...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Battered Books | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

...should, if possible, pay more attention to the highlighters. Granted, it would be difficult to keep a record of the condition of each book. But at the very least, people with the audacity to deface books on library premises should be hauled before the Ad Board while the Day-Glo ink is still wet. It won't enforce respect for books, but it might have some impact on the immediate problem...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Battered Books | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

...still or so spiritual as in his photographs. In their purity and precision, their balance of epic vistas and exquisite detail, Ansel Adams' photographs celebrated an ideal vision of nature and the American West. That black-and-white vision was of a landscape unsullied by neon and Day-Glo plastic, a majestic continent that still seemed for all the world like a new-found land. Passionate about art and nature, Adams tolerated the desecration of neither. At his death from heart disease last week near his home in Carmel, Calif., Adams, 82, the bearded and bespectacled photographer who composed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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