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Coco Chanel wasn't just ahead of her time. She was ahead of herself. If one looks at the work of contemporary fashion designers as different from one another as Tom Ford, Helmut Lang, Miuccia Prada, Jil Sander and Donatella Versace, one sees that many of their strategies echo what Chanel once did. The way, 75 years ago, she mixed up the vocabulary of male and female clothes and created fashion that offered the wearer a feeling of hidden luxury rather than ostentation are just two examples of how her taste and sense of style overlap with today's fashion...
While fashion for most of the decade has been dominated by the spare chic of designers like Prada and Jil Sander, this season it finds itself in the midst of a full-scale romance revival, and women seem to be smitten. Minimalist Marc Jacobs is dabbling in pink and pleats. Tocca, a label specializing in girlish party dresses that began with a collection of 11 pieces in 1994, has evolved into a multimillion-dollar business. Jewelry is having a renaissance. "We're just all so tired of looking plain," notes Andrea Linett, a fashion writer at Harper's Bazaar...
...Prada 3-button suit...
...celebrity quotient at last week's spring ready-to-wear show in Milan was high. Demi Moore, Anjelica Huston, Peter Gabriel, Boy George and Cher all showed up. Linda Evangelista and NAOMI CAMPBELL made rare runway appearances. Even other designers, including Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Miuccia Prada, came to offer support and perhaps to see what DONATELLA VERSACE, who has taken over design duties at the label since her brother's death, could do with a needle and thread. No one seemed disappointed--though it's hard to imagine anyone's being critical in such an environment...
...guide the fortunes of Givenchy. At Louis Vuitton, a maker of fancy luggage and handbags that dates to 1854, he has hired an American, the young sportswear designer Marc Jacobs, to create a line of bags and sportswear to take on the chic of Gucci and Prada. Jacobs should give Vuitton a high and profitable fashion profile--what he was hired to do--stepping into a company whose business is up 54% since it became part of LVMH. Last week Jacobs showed his own line of American classics with lots of cashmere and flannel--a sort of '90s Halston...