Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world of French haute couture was atwitter over the news. After nearly 30 years as artistic director of Christian Dior, celebrated couturier Marc Bohan, 62, had been unceremoniously ousted. Succeeding him at the house that has long epitomized French fashion: Milanese designer Gianfranco Ferre, 45. Dior's managing director, Beatrice Bongibault-Dhjan, implied that Bohan's departure was sort of his idea. Said she: "It was elegant of Bohan to know when to leave...
...honesty that the shocker did not prevent his re-election to a record fifth term last month (though this time by a narrow margin), but he has resolved to exonerate himself. Bradley has appointed a commission to rewrite the city's ethics rules in a "clearer and cleaner" fashion, and last week told the city council, "While not a legal mistake, my decision to engage in outside employment was an error in judgment because of the possible perceptions it created; for that I accept responsibility. I assure you that this experience taught me a painful lesson. I am determined...
...crowd gathers around the dance floor to watch a group called the House of Extravaganza do its stuff. The dancers, dressed in outrageous outfits, wave their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...
...orphan, Frances was adopted at 14 months and reared in Larchmont, N.Y. When she was eleven, her father committed suicide after losing all his money in the Depression. Frances felt that her mother, a beauty of German Jewish origin with a keen sense of high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that...
...Lear. Quick and sharp- witted, she suffers fools not at all and snubs sycophants with an icy glance. But when she is surrounded by sympathetic friends, her conversation expands. She defends her obvious vanity: "This quality continues into old age and drives the desire to remain sexual, slender and fashionable." A self- styled vegetarian with a diet of fish, vegetables and pasta, Lear says, "People think older women who are thin don't work at it. They work harder at it." Each season she buys a new wardrobe of Chanel clothes and cruises about Manhattan on 65 pairs of black...