Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same year he designed the male wardrobe for the opulent remake of The Great Gatsby, which starred Robert Redford. In 1977 Lauren's creations attracted a further celebrity following when Diane Keaton adopted them in a layered, tomboyish look for Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Lauren's label began to proliferate rapidly, appearing on cologne and boyswear in 1978, girlswear in 1981, luggage and eyeglasses in 1982, home furnishings in 1983 and women's handbags in 1985. He turned down dozens of offers to design such items as telephones, autos and chocolates...
...Lauren has been criticized as being a promoter rather than a designer, a copycat who turns traditional ideas into high-priced knock-offs. Case in point: his lined dungaree jacket with corduroy collar, a $98 rendering of an item that sells for about $35 with the Lee blue- jean label. Yet what Lauren is accused of taking from tradition is & systematically reborrowed from him by dozens of his smaller competitors...
...wanton hussy, called him "gender-confused pop star Boy George." This was a clear violation of journalese's "most-cherished tenet": while doing in the rich and famous, never appear to be huffy. One magazine settled for "cross- dressing crooner," and many newspapers temporarily abandoned the hyphenated tradition to label George "flamboyant," a familiar journalese word meaning "kinky" or "one who does not have all of his or her paddles in the water...
...leading New Age pianist and composer. "It is music that springs from a world culture," says Lucia Hwong, a Chinese American whose music turned up in the 1985 movie Year of the Dragon. Trying to define the style reduces Anne Robinson, a cofounder of the New Age record label Windham Hill, to "stringing words together that sound like an exotic disease identified by a German doctor. New acoustic classical jazz? New acoustic impressionistic music...
Though no firm figures are available, it is estimated that New Age music today accounts for up to 2% of record and tape sales. The percentage may seem small, but it compares favorably with that garnered by classical music. Windham Hill, the West Coast label that has become synonymous with the new style, last year grossed $25 million. In a hard-driving business, Windham Hill's success is anomalous, for the label is rarely heard on the radio, and it advertises only occasionally. Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must...