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Christian Dior created not only the New Look but a new silhouette every six months. Mme. Gres has been turning out her gently flowing dresses pretty much the same way for more than a half-century. Paul Poiret, the first celebrity couturier, left nothing undesigned, not only what a woman wore but everything she touched. His spiritual heir, Ralph Lauren, clothes not only whole milieus but fantasies as well: the dream of belonging, whether to a club or a board or the ski crowd at Vail. Giorgio Armani influenced the way almost every designer thinks by adapting to classic dictates...
...years, stores have used less obtrusive forms of co-advertising, called co-oping, in their catalogs to offset the rising costs of postage and printing. An advertiser showing a Christian Dior dress, say, often shares the costs fifty-fifty with the store. Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus carries no ads in its catalogs, but since 1981, it has sent a slick fashion magazine, now called NM, with features and ads free to its 900,000 active credit-card holders...
Even if one accept the contention that androgyny is about to sweep through the heart of Middle America, the timing of all this interest in androgyny betrays Engel's masculine frame of reference. Since the Dior look of the 1940's, women's clothing has become increasingly masculinized. Designers have gradually eschewed the classic Marilyn Monroe shape. Sometimes in the name of making a woman less of a sex object, but the alternative clothes and silhouettes have almost always been masculine. Broad shouldered jackets, business suits, ties, women's briefs; all were taken from the classical men's look...
...Dallas. Paper Dolls has hired Designer Marc Bouwer, whose creations are sold in tony department stores like Saks, to drape Fairchild and her young models (Terry Farrell, Nicolette Sheridan) in lush attire. Each episode of Cover Up spotlights the fashions of a name designer (including Perry Ellis and Christian Dior) in exchange for a plug...
...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 New Yorker Cindy Altfeld: "High fashion hasn't really hit Mexico...