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When the venerable house of Chanel shows a black fur hat the size and shape of Mickey Mouse's ears, as it did this spring, something is wrong. Lagerfeld's other japes included fuzzy fake-fur skirts shaped unmistakably like muffs that barely covered the buttocks. He has made the classic Chanel suit look tartier by the year, a crude parody of itself. At this point it would be preferable -- and more courageous -- to retire it altogether; versions of the design go back to the '20s, so the suit may have run its course. Lagerfeld has also vulgarized the Chanel...
...have overtaken the runways. So have other tired gambits, which can only encourage a woman to stay out of the stores and wear what she already has in the closet. The metallic look is suffering from fatigue, but it's still in favor. And nobody looks good in disheveled fake fur, now everywhere. The effect is to present a woman as an unclipped poodle who just swam a stream and had a good, vigorous shake...
...Milan's Blumarine show when model Carla Bruni rolled a baby carriage containing another model down the runway. High-waisted baby-doll dresses, started by New York's Anna Sui last year, are ubiquitous in 1994. Even Giorgio Armani, who should know better, has one. Going along with the fake-innocent look are Peter Pan collars -- last seen on Mrs. Doubtfire -- that will be in the stores by fall...
Bassett participated in three hypnotic-regression sessions (she says she used method-acting techniques to fake her way through them) and eventually served as treasurer of an abductee support group that Mack organized and ran. "I've never seen a UFO in my life," Bassett says, "and I certainly haven't been inside...
...While fake telegrams and blue urine makefor some funny moments, scientists say they arecareful not to cross the line between good andoffensive humor...