Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final sign that People Express was feeling the competitive squeeze came last month. Suddenly and without forewarning, the airline seemed about to drop its entire spartan philosophy. Burr announced that People would upgrade all its services, install leather seats in its aircraft, and offer --horrors!--luxury flying in newly installed first-class seating. At the same time the determinedly upscale VIP lounge was set up in North Terminal. The counterrevolutionary campaign was a clumsy attempt to woo the slice of the airline market that People had never served, the business traveler. The change in style came on the heels...
Traditionally, investigative reporters have relied on shoe leather and patience to ferret out the proverbial smoking gun. However, in the computer age, newsmen are enlisting the machine with dramatic results...
...Proprietor Yolanda Cellucci is shooting for a different market. Along with more traditional items, Yolanda offers a slinky jersey number with a peekaboo keyhole shape cut from below breast to just below the navel. For her own daughter's wedding last January, Yolanda ran up a gown of white leather, python skin, fox, mink, Swakara and gold cloth with a complementing jacket of Russian golden sable. Such an outfit might seem a little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom greeted reception guests from...
Miranda--a blond Venus with overbite--and her older lover are found murdered. He is wearing shoes by Bally; hers are red leather Charles Jourdan. Anyone who thinks the cause of death is more important than who made the footgear has missed the point. With flashbacks, overheated sex scenes and brand names, Gwen Davis announces her arrival in the high-rent district of Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins: "A riveted audience at Elaine's, a heavy-breathing browsing crowd at Rizzoli's." Forget serious. The hollandaise sauce from La Cote Basque that Miranda pours over her lover, the custom-made...
...Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld, the Zen funkiness of Yohji Yamamoto. The best American design tends to be generic, not designer labeled. It would be hard to find, for instance, a designer who has been influenced by Louis Dell'Olio, but it would be equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that is not derived in some way from the rumble-ready splendor of an American black leather motorcycle jacket. Paris' Claude Montana appears almost invariably in some combination of the same basic outfit: jeans, T shirt, a hooded sweatshirt and a nylon military jacket lined in phosphorescent orange. Montana...