Word: silk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unparalleled opportunity to display wealth and finery. On the street in front of the Festspielhaus, Mercedes-Benz and BMW luxury sedans steadily disgorge one of the most elegantly dressed summer crowds in Europe, the men in tuxedoes or formal Austrian loden coats, the bejeweled women in couturier fantasies and silk dress dirndls. One favorite local pastime is estimating the retail value of the gems on parade between Hirsch and the Festspielhaus before curtain time...
Leno, the lantern-jawed king of the stand-up circuit, had dropped by to try out some new material. Dressed in a silk shirt, faded jeans and Western boots, he barreled through 20 minutes of jokes, some of them written only that day and jotted down on note cards. On the Iran-contra hearings: "Senator Inouye . . . now there's a strict-looking guy. He's the principal of the United States of America." On Fawn Hall, Jessica Hahn and Donna Rice: "I love the way they describe these women as part-time models. I brush my teeth every morning -- does...
...Hemingway novel -- almost. A chorus of "Ole! Ole!" greeted Matador Luis Reina as he stepped into the arena last week bedecked in his sky-blue, gold- embroidered suit of lights. But the cheers turned to jeers when the crowd noticed the letters A-K-A-I in red silk running down his sleeves and pant legs. For the first time, a matador had sold space on his costume for advertising. The Japanese electronics firm (the name translates as "red" in Japanese) is paying the 29-year-old, second-class matador about $16,000 every time he enters the ring...
...Jean Patou, and this summer he introduced his first private collection. And what a collection it is. Inspired by his native city of Arles in Provence and by his university studies in art history, it features such figures as a traditional Arlesienne in crisscrossed lace shawls and striped silk skirt and a French cowgirl to round up the horses for which the region is famous. "I'm a nostalgic, naturally turned toward my roots," explains Lacroix. "A first collection establishes one's identity. It's like a first novel, almost always autobiographical...
...From Britain, Sade translated her Afro-exotic features and bossa-nova ballads into a boffo LP. Anita Baker poured the ache of jazz into pop and sold a couple million copies of Rapture. All over the dial, female singers are anchoring distinctive personalities to the sound of soul on silk. But none have hit the plangent chord struck by John and Cissy Houston's little girl...