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...most beautiful women parade around in the world's most impeccably tailored, insanely expensive and unusual clothes. Certainly it doesn't get much odder than at the house of 28-year-old Alexander McQueen, Givenchy. His show, held at a Parisian medical school festooned with swaths of red velvet and caged ravens, had been plagued by rumors that it would feature real human bones and teeth. Not so. The handlike skeletons under the lace mantilla were made of resin. The swan around SHALOM HARLOW'S neck, right, was as faux as the eyelashes, eyebrows and pupils adorning CHRYSTELE, left. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Kyle MacLachlan finds a missing ear, and later the head it once belonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 14, 1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...DIANA's castoffs--some lovely, some dated, some plain hideous. The "Up Yours" dress, right, so called because Diana wore it to stunning effect the night Charles admitted his infidelity on TV, was an early favorite at $74,000. But it was eclipsed by the $222,500 blue velvet "JOHN TRAVOLTA dress," far right, which she wore at a White House dinner in 1985, and the $151,000 "Elvis dress," below, as Diana has called it. Most of the gowns sold for $20,000 to $40,000, shockingly low to some bidders. "I bid on anything less than 20," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 7, 1997 | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...given talk that ex-hubby Prince Charles had pushed to have the high-profile auction moved out of London for looking a bit too much like a Salvation Army initiative for royal comfort. But bargain shoppers are unlikely to shell out the $200,000 paid for a midnight blue velvet number worn while dancing with John Travolta at a White House reception. Or $65,000 for the so-called "Up Yours" short black cocktail dress worn the night Prince Charles admitted his infidelity to TV viewers. For turning the tacky into the touching, Diana still boasts a public personna with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Garage Sale Like No Other | 6/26/1997 | See Source »

DIED. GEORGE FENNEMAN, 77, Groucho Marx's announcer who perfected the art of the sidekick laugh on TV's You Bet Your Life; in Los Angeles. His velvet voice also introduced Dragnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 16, 1997 | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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