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Single women living with their parents are among the most conspicuous consumers. They outfit themselves with imported designer ensembles, including Louis Vuitton handbags ($750), Hermes scarves ($166) and Yves Saint Laurent shoes ($133). Japanese women also spend heavily on traditional dress. An upper-middle-class woman may own 25 kimonos with a total value of at least...
...woolliest days of the Living Theater has the audience been such an integral part of the action. That is one reason why everyone-even the poor marginals there at the back of the room, even the desperate ones who have paid a scalper $40 or $50 for a Saint Laurent or a Montana invite-comes suited up for the part, often in something made by the designer who is showing. About 45% of the audience are buyers, another 45% press and the remainder an overdressed congregation of friends, fans and fashion groupies. There is great mutual gawking across the runway...
...with regularity in the theater of fashion. After the show, fans review the designers with the kind of blurbs that usually run in block letters in movie ads. Lagerfeld was tops, Ferre was a knockout, Armani's still the master, Montana was wild, Mugler was a kick, Saint Laurent is still the high priest, and what about these Japanese, anyway? America tends to a greater uniformity of style, mostly because of heavier commercial pressure from a larger market. So Bill Blass becomes classic, Ralph Lauren classic, Calvin Klein classic, Perry Ellis classic, and what about these Japanese, anyway? Orders...
...favorites: Yamamoto, Armani, Ferré, Miyake. One also has one's diversions (Lagerfeld, Montana), one's objects of respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion...
Trudeau has responded to Canada's economic crisis with a program of public-sector wage restraints, holding pay hikes to 6% in 1983 and 5% in 1984. But the glaring problem, says Laurent Thibault, vice president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, is that "the government is so overburdened by debt that it can't afford to stimulate the country. Business isn't going to do it. That leaves exports...