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...Dallas have taken a page from your book and hired their own designer to come up with dazzling new outfits to wear around Southfork. Even TV detectives, for heaven's sake, are starting to look like fashion spreads in Vogue. Jennifer O'Neill trots off to swank locations around the world posing as a fashion photographer in Cover Up. Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson play a former debutante and a working-class woman who team up on Partners in Crime, but from the outfits, who can tell which is which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: They're Puttin' On the Glitz | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Penthouse Magazine's $1 million Pet of the Year was sitting at a card table in Out of Town News yesterday, in front of the display racks for Swank, X-Rated Cinema and Adult Movies' Oral-Anal Special...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Penthouse Pet Visits Harvard Square | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

...Lagerfeld fashion empire blends craft and swank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Monte Karl on a Roll | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...also a little reminiscent of Midas'. Unlike most designers, who work under a single label, Lagerfeld goes three ways. He designs the couture and ready-to-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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Monte Karl on a Roll | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...about 190 today, has more than offset inflationary price rises. A room in the El Mirador Acapulco that went for $38 last year now costs just $16. The Mexico City subway fare is only one-half a U.S. penny, and 65? pays for a movie ticket. But swank shops in Mexico City's so-called Pink Zone can fool the unwary. For his $50 the tourist may get only imitation Gucci shoes, but real Christian Dior and other designer-label apparel is available for less than U.S. prices. Some visitors, however, find the clothes a bit dated. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the World's a Bargain | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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