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Karan has tailored a full-line apparel conglomerate. There is the Donna Karan collection for men and women, top-of-the-line fashion ($650 for a pair of woman's pants, $1,350 for a man's wool crepe suit). Then there is the exploding DKNY division, which showed other designers how to sell chic women's sportswear at relatively modest prices ($450 for a woman's wool blazer vs. - $1,100 for a comparable collection garment). Now DKNY has been expanded to include clothes for children and men. Karan also has licensing deals to make hosiery, a line...
...presenting a decidedly new look -- soft, fluid and romantic -- but Karan and Lauren showed the most imaginative interpretation of the change. Among the strong sellers in Karan's line: the poet's blouse, a white viscose creation with flared cuffs ($450); navy bell-bottom pants ($650); and an elongated wool crepe vest...
...dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat, but I'm pretty damn close. I've certainly got the family credentials to back up my claim: My mother sat in at the 1964 Democratic National Convention to protest the Vietnam War; my father marched on Washington for civil rights and my brother headed National College Democrats while he was in school...
...harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably as a sacrament in ancestor worship. After removing internal organs and drying the cavf mdavers, they stuffed the remains with feathers, grass, shell, wool and earth. Then the bodies were covered with clay, fitted out with wigs and propped up in family- like groups. The Chinchorro then took care of their mummies, judging by evidence of frequent repairs...
Braudy has stitched more than 1,000 interviews into this dismal tale, and she offers her readers some delicious tidbits: Ann in India, ready to stalk tigers in 120 degrees weather, appearing in a wool hunting outfit lined with chinchilla. At a dinner honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a footman passes potato chips and onion dip with the cocktails. Unfortunately, Braudy's arsenal of adjectives is limited. Families tend to be "wealthy," living in "opulent homes." And there are some unfiltered howlers -- the Duke of "Marlboro," for one. After a while, without the leavening of irony, one begins...