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...striking images are among the finest surviving examples of ancient Egyptian art. They depict the passage into the next life of a slim young woman clad in a diaphanous gown, her toenails polished white, her eyes outlined with kohl, her every need seen to by the servants and deities surrounding her. The accompanying inscriptions leave no doubt about her identity: Queen Nefertari, the favorite wife of Ramses II, Egypt's greatest pharaoh...
What the guys think is sometimes seriously scrambled. Madonna comes onstage dressed in an elaborate bare-midriff wedding gown to do Like a Virgin, the first of two high-spirited production numbers that close the show. "Will you marry me?" she asks the audience. "Yes Yes!" everyone screams. And in Dallas, one lovesick adolescent male stands up and yells, "I wanna have your babies!" Madonna sings, as she sashays about the stage, "You make me feel" -- hip thrust -- "like a virgin" -- belly roll -- "touched for the very first time." Mocking virginity, mocking sex, mocking, some might say, the solemn temple...
...ladies is Nancy Reagan, whose $22,500 hand-beaded Inaugural gown was a Galanos creation. Diana Ross chose deep purple Galanos glitter for the Academy Awards. For evening, Galanos likes a little Dynasty-style flash--and so do his customers. For daytime, he is tasteful to the point of fusty, although he uses colors more often seen in combination on the flags of developing nations: acid green, orange, black, purple. The great Galanos secret, the almost sensual connection between him and his clients, is the inside of the clothes. Seams are bound, linings finished, and zippers and buttonholes hand...
...lodge," where "you can lie in bed at night and push the button and the roof opens up so you can see the stars," as . . . darlin'. A mother and daughter, real estate money, both completely spherical, describe the spring collection's piece de resistance, a long beaded white gown surmounted by a tailored denim topper, for $13,700, as darlin'. The customers do not often achieve the Galanos body. Ovoid or fireplug shapes are commoner, but a secret of these clothes is that they look darlin' on almost everyone...
...were treated to a profusion of lovely clothing changes at each of the dozens of stops. The only stir was caused by what she didn't wear to a gala at Milan's La Scala: a stunning gold lame creation that the Princess modestly eschewed for a more conventional gown. "When people are guiding you, they sometimes touch bare flesh," Diana explained later. "It's rather embarrassing...