Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wear lines for Chanel in Paris. For Fendi in Rome he does furs and some couture, as well as swank ready-to-wear. And right now his first collection under his own name is making its debut all over the world. At prices ranging from $400 for a silk blouse to $4,000 for a nifty evening number that shifts along a woman's body like a Slinky, it is moving very smartly, thanks. "The only problem is we can't get the clothes fast enough," claims Bloomingdale's Vice President Kal Ruttenstein...
...from blue to peach. They are cut to accentuate the lines of the body, but they eschew the pointy lapels and extra pockets of more extreme European designs. As a result, the suits do not look out of place at an executive board meeting. Made of top-quality wool, silk, linen and cotton from Italy, Boss suits cost from $200 to $300 in Europe and $400 to $500 in the U.S. They typically run about $100 less than suits made by such leading European designers as Armani and Valentino...
...effect on collisions of male and female. E.E. Cummings describes the delicate and bittersweet technique of breaking in a new car as analogous to making love to a virgin. Chicago Artist Luis Jimenez's pastel study for his sculpture The American Dream shows a car, as Gerald Silk describes it in the museum publication, "ravishing a voluptuous nude female; breasts rhyme visually with hubcaps and headlights, hair with fenders, belly and buttocks with hood and trunk." Edward Kienholz's sculpture Back Seat Dodge '38 shows a truncated car, its front seat removed. In the back, a chicken...
...Kranhold, an alternate delegate from Danville, Calif, said, "It amazes me that people would think this is not a cross section of the American public." She waved an encompassing arm at the room full of overwhelmingly white, conservative, married women whose greatest mark of diversity was whether they wore silk or synthetic. They were not all rich, but they were, certainly, women who could afford a choice of life's options without worrying about child care or job training. Even so, the message that they delivered from the Dallas showcase in this, the year of women in politics...
...tone fantasy and military madness. The pipestem ideal has been phased out by the beefy silhouette best paraded in a bevy of unisex exercise duds, from tank tops and crotch-clutching shorts to billowing workout pants and pastel sweatshirts. There are T shirts and flight jackets made of parachute silk by the gifted British designer Katharine Hamnett. The elaborate, intricately detailed pants concocted by Marithe and Francois Girbaud, whose various lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric and an abundance of detailing. The simple functionality of jeans...