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...winning an economic bet in the east of Germany, and President Clinton and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher are defining a new world order, your choice of House Speaker Gingrich as Man of the Year shows how provincial TIME is in concentrating on internal American affairs. BOAZ SACHS Milan...
Thanks to Miuccia, the Milan-based house of Prada has gone from being a staid leather-goods firm to just about the most prized name in the apparel business. There are no clearance sales of Prada clothes; they can be hard to find at full price. The firm, run by Miuccia and her entrepreneur husband Patrizio Bertelli, has been cautious about expansion, but in the next year new outlets will be popping up--Atlanta; Costa Mesa, California; and the Bal Harbour district of Miami. The house now receives the ultimate accolade: it is widely copied. Several outfits in Calvin Klein...
With her design profile firmly in place, Prada is starting to alter it. "I know the moment of danger," she says. "It comes when they look to you for one thing only. Then when the fashion changes, they go away." The spring collection, shown in Milan last month, is identifiably Prada, but there are changes. The dropped waistlines are still around, but the chic, skinny belts are gone. So is some of the minimalist severity. "I'm tired of retro; I'm tired of chic," says the designer. Instead she uses color--but not loud color--more than she ever...
...OPENING SCENE OF SHAKEspeare's The Tempest, as a ship careens in a gale, a sailor cries, "What care these roarers for the name of king?" In fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...
...stand pat, coyly valued his network at about $11 billion, adding, "We just got a lot more expensive." And of course everyone is watching Rupert Murdoch, the envy of the media firmament, who with a recent infusion of cash from MCI is continuing to march across the world, from Milan to Fiji. Can Barry Diller possibly sit it out much longer...