Word: norma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Emanuel, who with his wife Elizabeth whipped up the Princess of Wales' wedding dress: "I feel good when I put on an Armani jacket because the cut and balance are right. So easy, stylish, uncluttered. His distinguishing mark is clearly his tailoring." Adds the innovative American designer Norma Kamali, "I don't know a lot about Armani. But when I say to a guy he looks great, 99% of the time it's Armani he turns out to be wearing...
...priced junior sales are now minis, Buyer Ann Freedberg exults, "They look right. The timing is right." At the young women's department of Galeries Lafayette, the big Parisian department store, minis are this season's bestsellers. At Chicago's fashionable boutique Ultimo, customers snap up Norma Kamali's short skirts almost as fast as they can be reordered...
...nther Schneider-Siemssen, Hoffmann is the Met's most successful, satisfying effort in months. It is all the more welcome because the season, still somewhat colored by 1980's labor disputes, began in a lackluster fashion. Soprano Renata Scotto was booed in her opening-night performance of Norma, and a Ring semicycle (Das Rheingold and Siegfried) fizzled out in something less than Wagnerian glory. It was in December, with Franco Zeffirelli's lavish cast-of-thousands production of La Bohème, that the company began the return to form...
Fabric purists, and women whose jobs permit a casual approach, can do a little vamping and pull on a pair of high-fashion Norma Kamali sweat pants; or buy something oversized from the designer boutique section; or dip into the proud father's closet and come up with some huge smothering sweater that, worn with pants and leg warmers, makes any mother-to-be look like an off-center ballerina on her way home from class...
...lovely line of a pregnant woman's body is susceptible only to the dictates of nature, not of a designer whose clothes shape-indeed, insist upon-a configuration of his own imagining. "Designers have never paid much attention to maternity clothes because pregnancy is such a temporary state," Norma Kamali remarks. It may be because maternity clothes do have their own afterlife that designers, who depend on variety, fight shy of them. Younger women, once they have delivered, will fold their wardrobes carefully for another year, another child. Older women may pass along their clothes to a friend...