Word: valentino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different, looser." Adds Milan's Giorgio Armani: "The new miniskirt is not stiff and straight but soft, fitted at the hips and gathered for a short volume effect. It is also a natural evolution toward femininity after the dizzying circus of pants, knickers, Bermudas, gauchos and Zouaves." Valentino, the dean of Italian designers, argues that "women feel the need for greater liberty. They want to seduce and flirt. The new short skirts are wide and swing as you walk-it's hide and seek." U.S. Designer Perry Ellis, who has been showing short skirts for three years, notes...
Leather also lends itself to fine detailing. Armani's creations for Italy's Mario Valentino print, stripe and weave leather to resurrect a rich Renaissance look. Bill Blass also uses a weave effect on some blouses, and Ralph Lauren has put ruffles on suede in delicate peasant blouses. Says he: "Feathery-light blouses that once were made of cotton can now be done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine...
Then just as fast as a sudden summer's storm at sea, it was over. Said New York Floor Trader Dennis Valentino: "I've never seen a turn-around like it. The market turned on a dime and went straight up." Wall Street professionals have always been skeptical of the Barnumesque Granville, and Big Money managers in charge of directing the investments for mutual funds and pension portfolios decided that they could pick up some bargains because stocks had fallen too far. The big institutions lumbered in to buy solid stocks like General Electric, which was trading...
...shoelaces--tied; the hair--combed. There is absolutely no substitute for refined taste when one is selecting from a range of articles that stretches across the Atlantic from Paris and Milan to 5th Ave., skips across 66th and all the rest of the way down Park. Armani, Ungaro, Valentino, Versace, Fendi, Dior, St. Laurent. Not many college students are able to pull off these designs. The few are bound to retain a high profile in any classroom...
When Brooke made her first entrance, "halfway through the show, the models backstage applauded. Onstage, as the audience clapped politely, she broke into a grin, as if she thought the whole spectacle a big giggle. If Valentino had tried to show her the catwalk glide, it wasn't evident; she simply galumphed down the runway as if she had been let out into a spring pasture...