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...Approximate cost of producing a runway show for Badgley Mischka...
...thanks to tanning advancements, heavy winter hides are giving way to summer textures that are as light as cotton and so versatile that designers are treating leather like fabric. Armani, Oscar de la Renta and Badgley Mischka are leathering up tube tops and evening gowns for the sultry months. Even the pimpy FUBU line is in on the skin with its line of leather NBA basketball shirts. Expect everything from shorts, bikinis, evening dresses and hot-weather codpieces made of hide in a store near you soon...
That's why just about every design house is using leather in looks that run from classic to edgy. Oscar de la Renta's laser-cut leather looks like lace. Badgley Mischka's shiny burgundy leather looks like Star Trek. Los Angeles-based designer Jenisa Washington's all-leather line, Sold (a sample above), is three years old, but Vogue recently named her one of this year's trendsetters. Marc Garson, owner of the New York City manufacturing house Rem Garson, started creating animal-skin sportswear in 1991. "People thought I was stupid," he says. But last year sales tripled...
...well-orchestrated anti-fur movement, all of which drove home the message that fur was a distasteful and excessive luxury. But as with most things in fashion, the trend faded. In 1985, 45 designers were using fur. This year that figure is closer to 200. Giorgio Armani, Badgley Mischka and Carolina Herrera showed fur in their fall '98 collections either for the first time or after a long break, and fashion's current chief recipient of slavish admiration, John Galliano, did a whole fur line. (Oddly though, he outfitted his models to look like prostitutes.) In the early '90s when...
EMMYS JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS, in fitted lime green (by Giorgio Armani), diamonds and major hair; Shoshanna Lonstein, also in lime green (from Badgley Mischka...
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