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...writers were positively pampered in Milan. A leading restaurant catered all their lunches, and the designers picked up the tab. In the evenings, top dragons were wined and dined lavishly by the big fashion houses. Not surprisingly, the reporters were beguiled by their Italian hosts. The first sentence filed by Bernadine Morris of the New York Times: "For the people who gave you the Renaissance, organizing a week of fashion shows is like child's play." Some writers found all the exotica useful. Said the Washington Post's Nina Hyde: "I like to write about what the buyers...
...With Milan challenging Paris for primacy in the ready-to-wear fashion world, a record 300 journalists from twelve countries were on hand to do some serious -and not so serious-writing. They belong to an influential but little-noticed subspecies of international journalism, the "fashion dragons," as they are known in the trade. With a mangled metaphor or a burbling encomium, they can rearrange fortunes in the clothing business, and change the buying plans of well-dressed women. On hand in Milan last week were representatives of glossy magazines, large daily newspapers, trade papers and some lesser lights...
...proclaiming their superiority to this frivolous business." But designers and dragons alike could derive some inspiration from Anna Piaggi, contributor to both the French and Italian Vogue, who showed up one day with a large velvet reproduction of an art deco vase perched on her head. Piaggi's Milan millinery was pretty tame stuff compared with her headdress in Paris two years ago: a basket brimming with shrimp and other fresh seafood...
...typical day during the Milan marathon consisted of about ten showings, each roughly 45 minutes in length and in different halls at the Milan Trade Fair Center. The seating plan was generally the same for each designer. On one side of the runway sat emissaries from the U.S. heavyweights: Women's Wear Daily (Publisher John Fairchild, Associate Editor Carolyn Gottfried, European Fashion Writer Marian McEvoy), the New York Times (Morris, Carrie Donovan of the Sunday Magazine), the Washington Post (Hyde), the International Herald Tribune (Hebe Dorsey), Vogue (Fashion Editor Polly Mellen) and Harper's Bazaar (Fashion Editor Gloria...
Fashion writers tend to suffer from an overfondness for airy prose and bubbly hyperbole. Wrote Mary Russell in the New York Times Magazine: "Colors are beautiful and subtle. Inspired, perhaps, by Milan's fog-swathed mornings ..." Not much investigative reporting goes on, but why should it? If a dragon oversleeps, there are always the ubiquitous handouts to fall back on. Everyone knows the rules, like not being too rigorous in differentiating between what will appear on a retailer's rack some day and what is a mere designer's bagatelle. Said Grace Mirabella, editor in chief...