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...embroidered silk ones. Many wearers have a pair for each suit. Furthermore, a classic set of suspenders must be anchored by six buttons affixed to the inner waistband of the trousers. Using metal clips to hold up one's pants is considered only slightly less outré than wearing a pair of white socks with a business suit...
Diva, a first feature by Jean-Jacques Beineix, 35, has flair to spare. No picturesque French location, from a bombed-out concert hall to a Normandy lighthouse, is too remote. No surface-water, a car hood, sunglasses-is too outré to keep it from reflecting a passerby's face. No character is too quirky to escape shoehorning into the film's delirious narrative. Jules (Frédéric Andrei) is a postal messenger in love with an opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez)-a diva so protective of her gift that she refuses to record even her greatest...
...melt along the arm. For her line this fall, the intrepid Barnes is featuring overcoats of exotic tweeds. She is also reworking men's and women's jackets with knitted collars of complementary colors but with different, tighter weaves incorporating spandex. If this sounds a touch outré, her clients-including Saks and Neiman-Marcus-are decidedly down-to-earth, and her 1981 sales take of $2 million is positively corporate for someone who can still use a loom...
...voyage across the Atlantic was largely the work of Enfant Terrible Rudi Gernreich, who was not only the first U.S. designer to bare the thigh, but also earned dubious fame with his topless swimsuit, the No-Bra bra and the see-through nylon blouse. By contrast with such outré expressions, the mini, if not the micromini, seemed positively respectable. Its social acceptance was assured when Jacqueline Kennedy surrendered to the new fashion...
...back in 1973, when the group first formed and Johansen, only a few years out of high school, signed on as lead singer, the Dolls looked like harbingers of a rock apocalypse. Glitter, outrageous costumes, strong intimations of dressing-room decadence made them notorious. Their mode may have been outré, but their music was just good old rock 'n' roll sand blasted back to life. The Dolls laid down searing, pop-inflected rock, proudly rooted in rhythm and blues, that could pound your ears into flapjacks. Sardonic anthems like Personality Crisis and Vietnamese Baby...