Word: laurentic
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...pages of Gentlemen's Quarterly and other men's fashion magazines are filled with ads from top European names: Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Giorgio Armani, Nino Cerruti, Hugo Boss . . . Hugo Boss? Is he a French or Italian designer who changed his name to make it sound more macho...
...staff emerged onto the steps of the stately, 18th century presidential palace in the center of Paris with a statement that sent shock waves across the country. "Premier Pierre Mauroy has presented his government's resignation," the official noted gravely. "The President has accepted [and] named Mr. Laurent Fabius as Premier." Fabius, formerly Mitterrand's Minister for Industry and Research, will at 37 become France's youngest Premier in more than a century...
...assailant, a Toulouse nightclub bouncer named Lionel Rehal, 26, was wounded in the thigh by one of the shots fired at him. While officials considered what, if any, charges to lodge against Rehal, members of his family attributed his act to anguish over the death of his brother Laurent, 19. But they also complained, as did relatives of the other dead paratroopers, that the government had been less than forthcoming in explaining the casualties. Hernu originally announced that the men had died in a "tragic accident" while removing abandoned rebel vehicles. Government spokesmen later said that the soldiers were reconnoitering...
...seasons or break loose with the Day-Glo flash of fresh fluorescence? Do they want the newly refined chic of Montana, played down and spiffed up like cotillion costumes for postpunk debs? Or the electric, eclectic, aggressively youthful chic of Jean-Paul Gaultier? Or the Olympian chic of Saint Laurent? And-oh, yes. Is Fort Worth really ready for Versace...
...definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool jumpsuits; his jackets with turned-down lapels; his heart-stopping evening wear... heaven on a hanger! Claude Montana's huge coats in electroshock colors; Yohji Yamamoto's sweaters in colors like a deep-sea bottom! Saint Laurent's peerless pants! It is easy enough, in the midst of all this, for any buyer to go nicely nuts. "This is it! This is the end!" said Krull, leaping to her feet at the sight of a black silk jersey, beaded Lagerfeld number. When Ruttenstein inquired just...