Word: organza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stipe, the band's front man and most prominent idiosyncrat, writes and performs as if he and irony were locked in a perpetual thumb wrassling match. Onstage, he will show up in an organza suit designed by Adelle Lutz, which, turning transparent under the stage lights, is obviously meant to summon visions of the oversize whites in which Lutz's husband David Byrne cavorted through Stop Making Sense. Stipe (the name rhymes with the slender-billed bird that good ole boys send gullible slickers out to hunt) devotes himself to his eccentricities, currycombing them until they gleam like attributes...
...Saturday afternoon service at the simple clapboard Our Lady of Victory Church was completely Catholic and performed by two priests, although there was no nuptial Mass. Caroline, dressed in a white silk organza gown with cloverleaf appliques designed by Carolina Herrera, arrived in a white limousine with her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, who helped her with her train and patted her back encouragingly before they entered the church. When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best...
...matter how many times she has been down the aisle. Anne Barge of Atlanta, who went into upscale bridal consultancy after designing a gown for former Georgia Governor George Busbee's daughter Beth, notes that satin and silk-satin blends are the most popular fabrics at the moment. "Organza is out, out, out," she says. "But tulle touches are coming back." Priscilla Kidder believes, "The girls went into ivory tones when the dresses their mothers had put away turned ivory from age. But wedding gowns themselves haven't changed. The most popular is still the very full, classic gown...
There were more than 600 of them, a spirited sea of tuxedoes and dinner jackets and splendid organza gowns. Their weathered faces suggested that some fellowship of older folk, maybe retirees, had assembled in Washington's Hilton Hotel last week. They were, instead, veterans of what President Ronald Reagan called "a twilight war." What bonded them and brought them together was the storied Office of Strategic Services, the cloak-and-dagger agency that was born in World War II and led to the formation...
...Once shy in public, "the world's most beautiful woman" finally seems to be enjoying her undimmed status as a living screen legend. At the start of last week the Film Society of Lincoln Center honored that legend with its lifetime achievement award. Resplendently slim in a petaled silk organza gown by Arnold Scaasi, Taylor, 54, arrived (45 minutes late, typically) to take her seat in a box next to her mother Sara Taylor, 90, and listen to testimonials by the likes of Roddy McDowell, Jane Powell, Mike Nichols and Lillian Gish. "She is herself an occasion," exclaimed longtime Friend...