Word: proenza
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Vera Wang excavating ideas from the city's ancient polycultural society and translating them into toga-like dresses, and Bali, where Diane von Furstenberg found bold floral prints. Japan--specifically its traditional folded-and-dyed fabric-printing technique, shibori--turned up on the runways of designers like Narciso Rodriguez, Proenza Schouler and Thakoon Panichgul...
...grew up in a time of complete globalization," says Lazaro Hernandez, 28, who, along with Jack McCollough, designs the label Proenza Schouler, "so the boundaries are not as strict. We're young, and we don't have the money to travel that much, but we travel in our heads. We go online. With technology, you can go anywhere on the Internet." This season they found a trove of vintage kimonos in McCollough's parents' attic, and the trapezoidal sleeve shape became a major motif of their collection...
British designer Alice Temperley is the eighth to take part in Target's wildly successful GO program, which has turned young, hard-to-pronounce designers like Proenza Schouler and Behnaz Sarafpour into household names. Temperley's collection of whimsical prints and tailored pieces will be sold at Target in September...
...Still others say the schism may have resulted from a personality clash. Proenza, who has openly criticized everything from federal funding cuts to a new name proposal for the Weather Service, may have been too severe a departure from the popular and more soft-spoken Mayfield (who is now a weather forecaster for a local Miami television station). Either way, there might not be as much bonhomie during those on-the-hour cable news network interviews with the Hurricane Center staff during storms this year."It's going to be hard for us to work as effectively as we need...
...Proenza dismissed that concern. Nonetheless, a team of Federal officials was sent to the Hurricane Center to gauge the effectiveness of its operations right now. Proenza's fate may well be determined by their report - which most hope will be released before nature releases the year's first hurricane...