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...Paris, went the chat among trade and press, the shows in Milan and London were a cumulative snooze-a-thon. Only Armani, in Italy, showed strength. The designers of England were, as ever, erratic and eccentric. There were signs of disappointment in retail reactions to the shows. Skirmishes over skirt length were blown, in the absence of any heavier action, into epic battles in a generally desperate attempt to bring heat to the placid proceedings. The short-skirt wrangle was a sure sign that the season was falling into something worse than a crisis. At least a critical condition...
Probably too much was expected of Lacroix. He propelled all manner of blinding prints down the runway and showed some inventive accessories, like the kind of mirrored purses backpackers bring back from Third World suqs. But the strain showed too. Some outfits, like a short ballerina-style skirt with a removable poofy apron, suggested that Lacroix was already feeling the weight of his considerable reputation and that it had already got too heavy just to shrug off. He was meeting his own standard, but not besting himself. He was, in a sense, just like every other designer this year: struggling...
...however, continues on his own way as unerringly as Issey Miyake. This new collection is his 31st, but it abounds with so many notions about shape and fabric that it bursts open like a just discovered treasure chest. The waist rises on a short black leather skirt, but the hem falls irregularly. A raincoat is made of polyester that feels and falls like inked paper. One pantsuit in atomic-orange wool knit looks like a drill uniform for fashion insurrectionists. Another pantsuit in silk clings and flares in the jacket, rides the waist, then blossoms out in the cuffs, looking...
...scenes where Amanda drills Laura about why she quit school, Kaufman makes the audience feel the depth of her pain and embarrassment as she shyly tells her story. Kaufman's dynamic talent shows when she transforms Laura from an overly shy girl nervously playing with the folds of her skirt into the carefree dancing woman she becomes with...
...trendy magazine show West 57th, opened this month's issue of Esquire, she was horrified. There on page 142 was a scorching picture of Meredith Vieira, one of the show's on-air correspondents, seated in a chair, head shyly hidden in folded arms -- and pink taffeta skirt hiked up, revealing an extravagance of thighs and a beauty mark on the inside | of her knee. Gordon promptly called the magazine to protest. To her chagrin, she soon learned that Vieira herself was unruffled. Indeed, the 34-year-old journalist had happily posed for the photo. Says...