Word: laurents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target of all this firepower was Pierre Berge, 58, the autocratic president of the $400 million-a-year Yves Saint Laurent fashion empire and the designer's companion of 30 years. Some said Berge's chief qualification to be head of the governing Association of Theaters of the Paris Opera was that he had contributed handsomely to Mitterrand's re-election campaign last year...
Berge also complained that Barenboim would be spending only a minimal four months a year at the Bastille. The conductor claimed he would spend at least seven months there and wondered aloud how much time Berge was planning to take off from Saint Laurent to work on opera. "When he refused to accept my conditions," Berge declared, "we broke off negotiations. I cannot let the money of the state be spent in so extravagant a fashion." And he did not like Barenboim's slurs, either. "I am not the head of any old couture house," he said. "I built...
Born Sybilla Sorondo in New York City, she worked for a year in Paris at Yves Saint Laurent as a seamstress, getting down her technique but drawing inspiration from the streets of Spain, where she grew up. She showed her first collection in Madrid in 1983, a "100% idealistic period, when I only did dresses for people who came to me." By 1984, however, she was selling her designs to other shops, and in three years she was producing more than her Spanish manufacturer could handle. She switched to GIBO, and although she admits, "I'm always terrified of losing...
...Raisa, the Soviet Lorelei Lee who, after admiring British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's diamond earrings on a 1984 trip to London, dropped into Cartier on New Bond Street to buy a pair ($1,780) for herself, paying with the American Express card. In Paris she asked Yves Saint Laurent for a bottle of his perfume Opium ($175 an ounce) and received it free. In London she canceled a visit to the tomb of Karl Marx for a chance to see the crown jewels. She owns four fur coats and wore three of them in one day in Washington. Mikhail...
...Christian Lacroix, currently carrying the torch as the mainstream's brightest hope, to kindle some heat. Lacroix, who turned couture upside down and shook out its hand-stitched pockets as no one else has since Saint Laurent, made his ready-to-wear debut, and expectations were high. Lacroix had suggested, while the clothes were still being made, that the giddy shapes and botanical palate of his couture work were going to be a bit muted. But when the lights went up on the first passage, there was a mini-mob of models swarming together at the back of the runway...