Word: ornamental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Blass, who has made precious few mistakes in his long career, agrees. He likes woolly legs, not crazy legs. In fact, he likes them well enough to denude his outfits of ornament. "Small head, short hair, no jewels, no necklaces," is his 1990 message. Who will come to the defense of artifice? Not Issey Miyake. Says the Japanese designer, who can conjure more shapes than a sculptor: "Clothes aren't sexy, women...
...universal as ever; but the values of people are no longer business values, they are professional values. Most people are no longer part of the business society; they are part of the knowledge society. If you go back to when your father was born and mine, knowledge was an ornament, a luxury -- and now it is the very center. We worry if the kids don't do as well in math tests as others. No earlier civilization would have dreamed of paying any attention to something like this. The greatest changes in our society are going to be in education...