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...karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case embossed with the customer's name. Bijan's own signature is engraved in gold on the shank of the gun. It is the perfect accompaniment to his line of bullet-proof clothing. "Gucci," he says with evident pride, "never did gold pistols." Advertisements, which have run in such trendsheets as Interview and Town and Country, include one with a black-robed woman pointing the revolver at the reader...
...communist group marched in a small circle, chanting slogans in support of El Salvador leftist rebels. The conservatives retaliated with shouts of "Down with Gucci communists" and "Long live the Marines...
Chants of Down with Gucci Liberals and "Peace Through Strength" interrupted the nine successive speakers at last night's rally which included representatives of the former Communist Hanoi Government and the Abdala Cuban Movement an anti Castro organization A Soviet emigre warned of the miliaturization of Soviet society, following other speakers' warnings that " it's not too late to get rid of the Soviet regime...
...gifts, expenditures on baubles and bangles this season appear to be particularly lavish. In Rome, such elegant shops as Gucci and Fendi are so crowded with Christmas shoppers that latecomers have been forced to queue up outside. Carla Fendi, one of five sisters who run the family's fashions, furs and luggage firm, predicts that sales will be up 20% over last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers...
...makes the spectacle ridiculous now is that, except in rare cases, people who have latched onto some status cannot be sure of how to flash the news to the world, and people who are watching cannot be sure who is dramatizing what sort of status with what symbol. Order Gucci loafers and you only risk winding up shod the same way as the boy who delivers them. A Cadillac today signifies nothing about the owner except that he might well pull in at the next Burger King. Incontrovertibly, any game has been seriously maimed when you can no longer tell...