Word: schiffer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freeze- friendly proportions. Nonetheless, if one house shows short, others apparently feel obliged to be just as daring. Never mind that mass-market stores like the Gap are selling thousands of midcalf dresses every week. A micromini with fancy tights or patterned, lace-topped hose looks glamorous when Claudia Schiffer sashays down the runway. But when she is snapped in mufti, she is usually wearing pants...
...Just because you receive a world-famous model, is that a sign of frivolity? . . . Such comments are mental dwarfism." -- PRESIDENT CARLOS SAUL MENEM OF ARGENTINA, ANSWERING CRITICS AFTER CLAUDIA SCHIFFER MET WITH HIM IN BUENOS AIRES
They reserved greatest scorn for younger generations. "With the college-bred youth leading the retrogression," Howard Schiffer Gans complained, "we have largely lost our individualism, our courage, and our capacity for moral indignation...
...Claudia Schiffer wasn't even a contender. Neither were other supermodels. They were . . . well, too glamorous, too intimidating for Oscar de la Renta's new perfume Volupte. Though Polish-born Derota Puzio, the model chosen by the designer, will surely turn heads, she looks like a regular person...
...supermodels invest salesmanship with a class and seductiveness no longer found in movie stars who dress down in blue jeans and prefer environmental preservation to nightclubbing. The top mannequins -- among them Cindy Crawford, Elaine Irwin, Karen Mulder and Claudia Schiffer -- always seem perfectly coiffed and coutured, manicured and made up. Says Jerome Bonnouvrier, head of the Paris-based Glamour agency: "Modeling has become the new Hollywood...