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...Aaron Milbank contributed to the reportingof this story.PhotoMichael KoehlerDivinity School student PHIL STOLTZFUS tookcalls yesterday in Memorial Church...
...Teresa A. Mullin '90 Tara A. Nayak '92 Stephen J. Newman '92 Editorial Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Features Editor: Anh T. Nguyen '90 Sports Editor: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Photo Editor: John F. Kim '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Aaron J. Milbank...
Lacroix's is the art of excess, and it works in part because of the knowledge of vanished grandeur he acquired while studying the classics and art history in college. Says Caroline Rennolds Milbank, author of Couture: "Since he knows all the good things that have happened in history, when women lived to look beautiful, he has a bigger vocabulary than a normal contemporary couturier. Any one of them has available to him the best embroiderer or flowermaker, but Lacroix probably has a bigger sense of the possibilities from having directly studied the past...
Firms have dropped their inhibitions about pirating talent. "It's not unusual to receive a call offering a package of six partners from another firm with a promise of $10 million of business," says Chairman Alex Forger of Manhattan's Milbank, Tweed. Meanwhile, by publicizing balance sheets and pay scales throughout the profession, aggressive trade publications like the American Lawyer, the National Law Journal and Legal Times have awakened ambitious attorneys to the greener pastures they might enter by jumping to a rival firm. Says Jonathan Spivak, who heads a Washington legal search firm: "It's like baseball...
...Milbank has a fine eye for social comment. Her heart may belong to purists like Madeleine Vionnet or wits like Lagerfeld, but who are the most influential designers? High on her list would be Molyneux, Adrian, Givenchy and Lauren--because of the way they dressed show-biz stars. Molyneux popularized the slinky chic of the '30s with his costumes for Gertrude Lawrence in Private Lives. Adrian, a West Coast designer snubbed by the fashion establishment, camouflaged Joan Crawford's broad shoulders by exaggerating them and produced the dominant look of the '40s. When Jacqueline Kennedy brought elegant dressing...