Word: mannishness
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...borrowings from Risky Business abound. The theft is evident immediately in the Tangerine Dream style opening score. By the time we hear the "Mannish Boy" of Muddy Waters accompanying the sports car's emergence from the house garage and the Epicurean philosophizing of Curtis Armstrong, who is again teaching his friend how to say "What the fuck," we know we are witnessing full-scale felony...
...first high fashion style of the Fifties was actually created in 1947 when Christian Dior showed his first collection. Dior presented a silhouette which became known as the "New Look." Half-a-century's development of the square, mannish, waistless woman was relinquished in a moment for this new ideal of feminine chic. It consisted of a tiny, nipped waist, rounded (even padded) breasts, rounded hips, and skirts which usually swept as low as eight to twelve inches from the floor...
...dominant one is meticulous tailoring. An outfit in loden green wool tweed, made for the Dior label, is a marvel of classic grace achieved through proportion and soft pleating. Pants, which Saint Laurent thinks may be his biggest contribution to fashion, have clear, economical lines, never exaggerated, never mannish. Good tailoring is behind what is truly his greatest influence on clothing, the huge (172 outlets) international string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples in the museum show; Vreeland insists that the pieces...
...dominance of the fashion world; of liver cancer; in Paris. A onetime architectural student who apprenticed to Couturiers Molyneux and Lucien LeLong before opening La Maison Pierre Balmain in 1945, he was one of those who introduced the postwar soft, feminine "new look," a welcome relief from the severe, mannish lines of the 1930s and 1940s. His subtly tailored suits and classic dresses could be worn from one year to the next, reflecting Balmain's wish to be timeless rather than trendy, elegant rather than eclectic. "In this heady adventure," he once said of designing, "the most difficult thing...
...series of tributes to the group's spiritual homeland. (See review below.) As always, the music bears a mixture of sentiments: raucous enthusiasm tempered by ironic self-knowledge. The Stones appreciated the distance between themselves and the songs they sang from the start: Mick Jagger was not the first Mannish Boy, after...