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...rambunctious line that had the dash and Technicolor splendor of a Minnelli musical. Rifat Ozbek, whose clothes have an easy, funky swank and a kind of surreptitious sophistication, neatly encapsulated London's trend toward revisionist sartorial conservatism, where rock style has been replaced by bemused manor- house dressing. Milan's Romeo Gigli, working with finesse and the wily eye of a fine stylist, accomplished the inevitable: he took the vaunting ideas of Japan's great fashion designers, tailored them down and gave them fresh commercial pertinence. The upstart fashion of all three designers brought a leavening of zest to what...
Politics cut heavily into the semiannual fashion giddiness. Paris, besieged by the fear of terrorist bombings, seemed a risk to everyone. Milan and London, not similarly troubled, still fell under the long shadows from France. The Paris shows, held in tents in the courtyard of the Louvre as usual, proceeded in unaccustomed orderliness, with heavier security measures than most international airports and without the playfulness that makes even the silliest presentations tolerable. If la mode were better used to the real world, this might not have mattered so much. But the glass of fashion is a mirror that reflects only...
...enveloped him as he was growing up. Born in the soil-rich region of Romagna, Gigli was "surrounded by books" as a boy. His father and grandfather were antiquarian booksellers, and, the designer remembers, "We always lived in houses full of antique furniture and paintings -- beautiful but uncomfortable." His Milan studio, staffed with six associates, is unfussy; his apartment has lots of white space and green plants, and that is where he does most of his designing, "at night, when the telephone does not ring." He weekends at a getaway house near Portofino, where "I turn into a peasant," spending...
...theater category, the Harvard-Radcliffe Classics Club for the production of Sophocles' "Ajax" was given money as well as Rebecca L. Crandall '87 for her staging of excerpts from Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting...
...Lazarus too readily accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...