Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fashion is a young game, all right, but consider: most of its grand masters are well settled into middle age. It is easy enough to make a splash with a giddy collection when you are fresh from art school, but making a mark takes an unwieldy combination of staying power and stubbornness, a good deal of money and a knack for sidestepping the competition even as you shoulder the weight of history. Against such formidable odds, a lot of talent has blazed for a season or two, then guttered. The recently concluded round of European fashion shows for the spring...
...silliest presentations tolerable. If la mode were better used to the real world, this might not have mattered so much. But the glass of fashion is a mirror that reflects only its own wonderland, and it was outside the Louvre shows -- at a frisky but modest presentation in the Grand Hotel -- that Paris picked up some truly vibrant refractions...
...inward elegance that the designer says "begins with how a woman today moves, how she expresses herself. Women today value their freedom; they do not want to feel compressed or crushed by what they wear." Like Ozbek, Gigli also studied architecture, but he works from individual pieces, not a grand design. The usual fashion practice is to come up with a broad-based aesthetic for each collection. Gigli creates individual pieces -- a lovely evening dress of elasticized linen, for example, that hangs like an unpleated Fortuny -- and fits them into a whole. "Each piece I design has its own life...
...Dade County grand jury believed him and declined to indict Rasheed for manslaughter because he had acted without the intent to kill. Even so, it added, negligent or intentional killing solely to protect property, "should never be tolerated." The grand jurors' decision was a locally popular one, but the mixed signals they sent had some people worried. "Their actions will probably speak louder than their words," says Criminal Justice Professor William Wilbanks, of Florida International University. "Most people are going to think the grand jury said that Rasheed did the right thing...
...wake of the Miami grand jury's decision, Florida Legislator James Burke intends to sponsor a law to allow businesses to use potentially deadly devices to protect property, if they report them to police and fire departments and put up a warning sign. Meanwhile, Rasheed and his attorney Ellis Rubin plan appearances in Chicago, Detroit and other cities to start a campaign to change other states' laws. "Sometimes your property can be the same as your life, when it's the source of your livelihood," says Rubin. As for Rasheed, he says he is done with deadly traps and hopes...