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...semiannual fashion giddiness. Paris, besieged by the fear of terrorist bombings, seemed a risk to everyone. Milan and London, not similarly troubled, still fell under the long shadows from France. The Paris shows, held in tents in the courtyard of the Louvre as usual, proceeded in unaccustomed orderliness, with heavier security measures than most international airports and without the playfulness that makes even the 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...
...roll animal, right down to faithful applications of black fingernail polish, but the clothes he has been designing for his label since the spring of 1985 have a refinement that makes them seem both worldly and weightless. He likes to structure the top ! half of an outfit with heavier fabrics like cashmere or gabardine, then use an airy silk or supple jersey to soften up things below. "My clothes are not of the moment," Ozbek says, speaking in his hurried, lightly accented English. "Take all the accessories away, and they are classical. But can I say modern classic...
...Michael Curtis is human; he's had a few cookies," the accused admitted. "But I'm down to the right weight. Brian, he's gotten heavier," Curtis claimed. "He must have something in his closet that we don't know about...
Washbrook added, though, that he was not at Harvard to do research so much as to teach. In fact, he says he plans to take on an even heavier teaching load. "I'm quite keen to teach another, more specialized course next year. Otherwise, it would be rather a letdown if you did happen to get interested in this stuff, and there were only introductory courses available...
...idea is that this group would have a much heavier workload [than the CRR] and consequently a sense of continuity," Marquand said...