Word: minis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fashion collections shown last week in New York City had a reassuring, familiar look: lots of clean-cut classics, long on style, short on thrill. But for a sagging, badly scared industry, that was headline news. What set Seventh Avenue cheering was the skirt that wasn't there: the mini, last year's sexy shocker...
Rejecting the mini and not knowing what to invest in, many women just wore their wardrobes for another season -- with perhaps a small hike at the hem. This summer very short lengths will continue to be seen. But for fall, when most women make their serious purchases, skimpy skirts seem a poor bet. In addition to the rebuff on principle, women shunned the mini for economic reasons. "Especially since the October crash, people are more cautious," says Karen Guthrie, 30, a title-insurance company manager in Los Angeles. "Now even yuppies have budgets." In a fit of fashion passion, Susan...
...apparel industry, the mini's failure has been a real financial chiller. "The guts of the market is daytime wear," says Neal Fox, president of the Washington-area Garfinckels stores. Abandoned skirts at hefty reductions off the original price twirl idly on sales racks at Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue. According to Millstein, the industry lost billions in markdowns. U.S. Commerce Department figures indicate that sales of women's clothes in February dropped 3.6% from the year before...
MARIO PUZO'S THE FORTUNATE PILGRIM (NBC, beginning April 3, 9 p.m. EST). In a mini-series spanning nearly 30 years, Sophia Loren plays the stalwart matriarch of an Italian-immigrant family in pursuit of the American dream...
...ready-to-wear debut, and expectations were high. Lacroix had suggested, while the clothes were still being made, that the giddy shapes and botanical palate of his couture work were going to be a bit muted. But when the lights went up on the first passage, there was a mini-mob of models swarming together at the back of the runway wearing splendiferous coats and short dresses and hats all colored like condiments: mustard yellow, catsup red, hot dog-relish green and purple that looked as if it had come from an eggplant that had suffered a fatal injection...