Word: runway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultimately through his very visible links to the grand and the fallen, the fabulous and semifabulous, that Versace left his most significant cultural legacy. The first designer to use known magazine models at his runway shows in the early '80s and the first to shrewdly place celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Sylvester Stallone in the front rows of his audiences, Versace fused the cults of celebrity and style. The spectacles he created, replete with the blaring sounds of rockers like George Michael and clothes that were just as loud, earned the designer all the publicity they were meant to garner...
Forget the catwalks of Paris, Milan and New York City; watch the fashion runway at the N.B.A. play-offs--the sidelines where spiffy coaches in designer suits patrol the hard court. Players may have fancy footwear contracts, but many coaches have their own clothing deals. The trail was blazed by Pat ("the Peacock") Riley (1) of the Miami Heat, the sleek Supermodel among N.B.A. coaches, who has a deal with Giorgio Armani. Now a host of others are coming out of the closet. Herewith some coaches and their fashion allegiances...
Through my goggles, I glanced at the end of the runway, only a few hundred feet away. Returning my gaze to the F-14 sitting directly in front of me, I saw the pilot return the deck officer's salute and then, in an instant, the jet bolted from its position with lightning acceleration and flew from the carrier...
...Uncovering Truth, c. 1743. These, one is inclined to think, are among the first "modern" beauties in painting. Not wardrobes of flesh like Rubens' goddesses, not pneumatic dolls like Boucher's nymphs, they are (relatively) slender, blond to redhead, and have the minxy arrogance and perfectly toned skin of runway models, inaccessible, gazing down from their nests of vapor in the blue-rinsed sky above. In Tiepolo, the women always seem to be running the show; his emblematic heroes like Rinaldo, by comparison, look almost effeminate...
...certainly has a similarly mesomorphic ego. And as this photo (shot by Richard Avedon for Gianni Versace) reveals, a little makeup--or even a lot--and the right attitude work wonders. "Elton is more than a pal for me: he's my brother by choice," coos Versace, for whose runway shows John often writes songs. "I love his voice, music and talent." Having put him through three fittings, in Paris, London and Milan, Versace gave the flamboyant singer the dresses when the shoot was over. (What else was he going to do with them?) Says Versace: "I'm sure...