Word: leatherizing
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...play then launches into a scene where two onlookers are watching their friend get beat up by a mean-looking guy in a leather jacket. Though this mix of incongruity and surrealism creates confusion, it does not detract from the piece, but rather intrigues the audience...
...streets of fashion-conscious England and Holland. But no country has embraced the retro buttons?and their message of '80s-style youthful exuberance?as completely as Japan. Tokyoites have flocked to purchase kanbacchi, sporting their own distinctive anthems on their identical denim jacket lapels. Wait till they rediscover thin, leather neck ties...
Until Gibson arrives. In contrast to Fionne, Gibson is a high-maintenance hound. The undersized pooch prefers to be carried in a blue tote bag, complete with an attached leather case for his favorite ball. When Gibson sets a paw in the buzzing bar, his owner David Calkins hasn't a clue what his pet is going to do. This afternoon Gibson is sulking. While a posse of happily inebriated customers crowd around, he refuses to play ball. "He can be moody," sighs Calkins, petting Gibson's silver-plated head. "But I suppose that's my own fault for spoiling...
Suddenly it got quiet. I looked up. And froze. Two beautiful women had mounted the stage. Dressed in black leather, with a belt of metal studs, wild blond hair, these dominatrices and their two men launched into music that was described to us as “AC/DC+Guns N Roses+Blondie.” They were Halfcocked, an incredible metal rock band that single-handedly transformed the room from a communal rest stop into a musical mosh pit. The lead singer, Sarah Reitkopp, a great quickener of male pulses, thrashed and gyrated and had the audience on the edge...
That's why just about every design house is using leather in looks that run from classic to edgy. Oscar de la Renta's laser-cut leather looks like lace. Badgley Mischka's shiny burgundy leather looks like Star Trek. Los Angeles-based designer Jenisa Washington's all-leather line, Sold (a sample above), is three years old, but Vogue recently named her one of this year's trendsetters. Marc Garson, owner of the New York City manufacturing house Rem Garson, started creating animal-skin sportswear in 1991. "People thought I was stupid," he says. But last year sales tripled...