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With its sleek design and utterly pretentious three-story wine tower, Excelsior has some of the best food, wine, and views in the Boston area. Overlooking the Boston Public Garden, the restaurant is sandwiched between two high-end retail stores: the edgy androgynous designs of Sonia Rykiel and the sexy luxe lingerie of La Perla...
...London At Last France's grande dame of fashion has descended on London. The Sonia Rykiel store on Brook Street opened last week, 34 years after her first Paris shop. That, she says, is the price you pay for remaining an independent, family-run company; had she sold out there might now be Rykiel stores in all the major capitals. But going it alone suits the woman who opened her first shop to indulge a hobby. Now, she's known around the world for her exceptional knitwear and detailing. Rykiel uses stripes, rhinestones, even velour, to create her style. While...
...those who crave fashion, Robert Altman's "Ready to Wear" serves up a multi-course feast. If you're the kind who rises early on Saturday mornings to watch "Style" with Elsa Klensch, you'll gorge yourself with celebrity sightings, feeling very in-the-know when you recognize Sonia Rykiel's signature red hair across a crowded room. However, those who think Gaultier is a sort of scruffy beard will find "Pret-a-Porter" about as filling as a stingy hors d'oeuvre tray...
...favorites: Yamamoto, Armani, Ferré, Miyake. One also has one's diversions (Lagerfeld, Montana), one's objects of respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion...
...Italian, according to one fashion consultant), the French fashion industry is retaliating with standard operational disdain. "I think Italian designers are certainly worth encouraging," sniffs the mighty Givenchy. "I've never been into Armani's boutique here, or that of any other Italian designer," claims Sonia Rykiel, Parisian designer of knits that seem to slink under their own power. "The French have all the Italian skills and madness and creativity. Quite honestly, I can't name you a really crazy Italian designer...