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MADRID The antifur lobby is virtually nonexistent in Spain, so designers are scoring with fox, sheared mink and textured leathers like Ferragamo's embossed calfskin jacket, above...
What of Orzolek's and Joy's new It girl status? Says Joy: "I ring up my mum and say, 'They're calling Karen a fashion icon, and she's got a fake mink hanging around her neck with button eyes!' It's stupid stuff." --By George Epaminondas
...pharmaceutical sales representative in Omaha, Neb., has a 2-year-old daughter and says many of her friends have also had children later in life. "We have great jobs, own a home and have no debt," says Kilton, who spent $200 on a Christmas dress trimmed in mink with matching fur shoe clips and headband for her daughter, who wore the outfit once before it was tucked away in a cedar chest for safekeeping...
...Bekins says the store's sales in its first month were "phenomenal," and they have only improved, with June being her "best month ever." T shirts retailing for $20 and dresses for $100 are being snapped up faster than Bekins can reorder them. She says one customer purchased a mink-edged sweater and skirt for $170 and then returned to buy a matching outfit for her younger child...
DIED. PATSY MINK, 74, Hawaii's irrepressibly liberal Democrat and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress; of viral pneumonia. Mink opposed the Vietnam War and championed gender equality. After 24 years in the House, she had just sailed through a primary vote--one week before her death...