Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constitute the design team Tuleh, a purveyor of fetching party wear. In business for just one year, the partners last week won a nomination for the prestigious Perry Ellis Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Sportswear too is flourishing, notably in the output of Patrick Robinson and Pixie Yates. And even ball gowns have a tasteful advocate in William Calvert, whose collection is sure to be the highlight of this week's South of Seventh event in New York City, which is intended to showcase the work of largely unknown new designers...
Tuleh, like Robinson and Yates, already shows uptown at New York's semiannual collections. The team's fall '99 presentation, held in February, was a packed affair, with many of the city's major fashion editors present. Down the runway came ruffles and bold silk prints, all part of the duo's protest against fashion's I'm-off-to-my-assembly-line-job-on-a-Mars-colony strain of chic. "There is an overly intellectualized, nihilistic approach to fashion at the end of the century that is predictable and dreary," says Patner, "and why should women be dreary...
Although his garments are less overtly opulent, Robinson too has gained attention as an ardent avoider of fad. A modern, never-staid classicist, he is known for his fine tailoring and use of luxurious fabrics, some of which are his own innovations. "Patrick is much more about style than trend, and the customer appreciates this," explains Nicole Fischelis, vice president and fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, which carries Robinson's line. "There is an integrity to his design that's very special...
Between the stacks of Widener Library and the professors of Robinson Hall, students had almost all the inspriation they needed to write history papers--except...
...story "Tae-Bo Or Not Tae-bo," about the trendy new exercise routine Tae-Bo [FITNESS, March 15], stated that Petra Robinson is "a vice president at the American Fitness Association." Robinson is vice president of the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (A.F.A.A.), a different organization...