Word: ungaro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensitive rendering of the large personalities of the industry. Despite the attention to individual detail, though, Agins seems to have only constructed these figures so that they might be situated into a faulty Doomsday scheme of history. Far from the whimpering, feeble creature that Agins suggests, fashion--whether Ungaro, Tommy, or Banana--has become one of few artistic forces to seize upon contemporary American culture with a resounding bang, not a whimper...
...Secretive all-female club that meets weekly to talk ballet, opera, Chanel and Ungaro over tea and lace cookies...
Other recent entries in the category include KORS from Michael Kors, which markets $185 sarong skirts and $105 chambray shirts. Kors anticipates that sales this year will reach $15 million. Ungaro's Emanuel line includes a $360 houndstooth dress and a $195 gabardine skirt. Declares Ungaro: "A woman doesn't need a lot of money to be elegant. She can be chic with clothes bought from a supermarket chain." In the men's market, where the move toward lower- priced lines is less pronounced, second collections include Versace's V2 and Armani's Mani...
...always make great models. Connection to the camera is key. When photographer Arthur Elgort meets a young model for the first time, he wonders if she will "transfer" onto a photograph. "She's cute in her little jeans," he explains, "but when we pile the Givenchy and Ungaro on this 20-year-old, the girl could disappear before our eyes...
...headlines on Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics. Folklore abounded, and a little of it goes a long way. Saint Laurent reminded everyone that he got there first by starting his presentation with a reprise of his famous "rich peasant" couture collection of the mid-'70s. Ungaro's sumptuous clothes also paid homage to that look. The simplest pseudo peasant was Kenzo, who, with his customary lack of pretension, threw together vivid knit patterns and topped them off with enormous babushkas...