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...thing only. Then when the fashion changes, they go away." The spring collection, shown in Milan last month, is identifiably Prada, but there are changes. The dropped waistlines are still around, but the chic, skinny belts are gone. So is some of the minimalist severity. "I'm tired of retro; I'm tired of chic," says the designer. Instead she uses color--but not loud color--more than she ever has and even indulges in pretty floral prints...
...thoughts, he shakes his head in dismay, mutters and then scratches something on a much folded sheet of white paper. You might think he was a curmudgeonly equipment manager or an eccentric classics professor. But what gives his identity away, more than the familiar face or the trademark retro eyewear, is the manner in which the behemoths on the field cast periodic glances his way. They know that on that sheet of paper Joe Paterno may be writing down how the rest of their lives will turn...
...with a theme--youthful piety, for example--she rambles for 30 minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head. On Wednesday's installment, she chats with guests, usually priests or laymen who share her conservative views; both segments include calls from viewers. In video terms, it's totally retro, but it works. Says Jesuit Father Thomas Reese of the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington: "She's the most successful Catholic TV evangelist since [Bishop] Fulton Sheen...
...white-hot English designer John Galliano, meanwhile, was the chief prophet of another theme in the fall collections: Hollywood-inspired '40s retro glamour. His suits and dresses were stiletto-slim, with huge, dramatic sleeves or swaths of material around the shoulders or waist. Jackie wouldn't wear one of these, and Audrey would be overwhelmed in one, but it is easy to imagine Joan Crawford or Bette Davis stalking an errant lover using the costume as a weapon. Ghost, designed by Tanya Sarne -- who is also English -- was back in the black-and-white era too: waterfall dresses, flowing crepe...
ManRay. 21 Brookline St., Central Square, Cambridge. 864-0400. Hell on Fri., March 10. Retro and New Wave Party on Sat., March...