Word: pucci
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...inside track?" Now it's goodbye, Alan Alda; hello, Mel Gibson, with your sensitive eyes and your lethal weapon. Hi there, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the devoted family man with terrific triceps. The new surge of tempered macho is everywhere. Even the male dummies in store windows are getting tougher. Pucci Manikins is producing a more muscular model for the new decade that stands 6 ft. 2 in. instead of 6 ft. and has a 42-in. chest instead of its previous...
Life must be sweet to Emilio Pucci. There can be few satisfactions more pleasing to a designer than to savor success twice, to lead fashion's promenade after years on the shelf. A quarter-century ago, Pucci introduced bodysuits in vivid geometric patterns. They became a chic international uniform for several years and then, inevitably, were castigated as cliches. Fortunately for Pucci, fashion repeats itself. Thus, lively hosiery has become the rage of 1990, and the grand old Florentine marchese, who began his career by running up slinky playclothes for his girlfriends, may be out of stock before the summer...
...Pucci owes his new fame to a revolution that began in the gym and on the jogging track. Gradually, the line between work-out gear and street clothes has blurred, and, as people gazed into the studio mirrors, they began to see that an unbroken silhouette looks longer and leaner than one cut up by a skirt...
...movement that started in the gym has blossomed into sexy, long-stemmed silhouettes. Tights, body stockings and leggings are the first fad of the '90s, starting a boom in the hosiery business and restoring septuagenarian Italian designer Emilio Pucci to the top of the international hit parade...