Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alfa Romeo is in bad shape, having lost an estimated $170 million last year. Even so, Ford had wanted to use Alfa's products to compete in the European and U.S. markets for luxury sports cars now dominated by such rivals as Mercedes- Benz and Jaguar. But Fiat was eager to protect its No. 1 position in Italy by keeping Alfa out of Ford's hands...
...knee is all better," Cleary said. "He didn't push it or rush it this summer. He's in good shape...
Brody was not always in such good shape. Her weight seesawed through high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, where she majored in biochemistry. But when she went for a master's degree in science writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and did a two-year stint at the Minneapolis Tribune, the move proved personally disastrous. "I wasn't used to Midwestern reticence," says the voluble Brody. "I felt very isolated and different. So I turned to food." Eventually she ballooned to 140 lbs., and there...
...Comme des Garcons line, added a dash of Milanese insouciance and found himself among the hottest designers in the marketplace since his first show in March 1982. Gigli, who dislikes being photographed, firmly resists intimations of Japanese influence. When he remarks, however, that "my clothes have no shape when they're on the hanger, but they take on shape when they're worn," there are distinct echoes of the Eastern precept that the shape of a garment comes from the wearer's body and is not imposed upon...
...People have to make happy clothes," Patrick Kelly says. "There's just too much sadness in the world." In fashion's fractional contribution to the Zeitgeist, he and Ozbek and Gigli have made nonchalance into a high craft, turned zest into a wearable commodity. Spirit does not have shape on a hanger either, but these are three young designers who cut it and fit it like fine fabric, then send it out to play...