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The article focuses on the renovation of the Victorian-era Manhattan apartment of gallery director David Maupin and magazine editor Stefano Tonchi in New York City by architect Annabelle Selldorf, which features white walls, custom bookshelves, and modern furniture.

Examines the exotic furniture designed by Karl Springer. Brief profile; Exotic skins utilized on most furniture designed.

Features couturier, Valentino Garavani's villa in Rome, Italy. Collection of souvenirs, personal memorabilia and portraits in his master suite; Color preference; Living room renovation; Interior design.

Features the house of antique dealer Jean Lupu in Paris, France. Interior design; Passion of Lupu on decorative arts; Description of the entrance hall.

Reports on the interior decoration and architectural design of the house owned by Sir Ben Kingsley in Oxfordshire, England. Modifications to the historic structure; Gothic elements of the house furnishings; Selection of carpets and rugs from world travel.

Focuses on the interior design of a Holland Park mansion in London, England worked on by Belgian interior designer Axel Vervoordt. Themes and colors used by Vervoordt; Factors considered by Vervoordt in designing the house.

Highlights the Nymphenburg porcelain exhibition in New York City. Manufacturers of the porcelain pieces; Design themes; Method used by the exhibitors to show the pieces to the best advantage.

Describes several furniture pieces featured in the furniture fair Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy in April 2002. Bedroom suite from Hannes Wettstein; Sink from Carlo Colombo; Body Raft chair from Giulio Cappellini.

Features the architectural decorations and ornaments at the New York City apartment of fashion designer Giorgio Armani. His art preferences; Details of the apartment's interior design; His use of furnishings and fabrics from his Armani Casa collection.

Features a house owned by interior designer John Stefanidis in Notting Hill, London, England. Description of the house; Artworks displayed; Furnishings of the house.

Describes the items exhibited at the 2001 International Furniture Fair, also known as the Salone del Mobile. John Pawson's design for Obumex; Features of Claudio Silvestrin's Waterside bench; Information on Fabien Baron's collection of sofas, chairs and tables for Cappellini.

Focuses on Tanaquil Le Clercq, a ballerina whose career was tragically terminated by polio. Her marriage to George Balanchine, the choreographer and co-founder of the New York City Ballet; Planned tribute to Le Clercq at the 50th anniversary celebration of the ballet company; Career highlights; Relationship with Balanchine; How she has dealt with the disease.

Profiles Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) player Se Ri Pak. Her skill and talent at the age of twenty; How her popularity has increased the image of the LPGA; Sponsorship contracts she has won with Korean company Samsung; Her personal style; Her background and family life.

Profiles Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. His control of the luxury-goods empire; How the market for luxury goods has shifted to a younger crowd; His control of Christian Dior, Givenchy, Veuve Clicquot, Louis Vuitton, and Guerlain; His piano playing; His family; How fashion has changed since the 1980s; The democratization of luxury.

Pictures the works of several fashion designers. Ralph Lauren; Bill Blass; Badgley Mischka; Calvin Klein; Others; Comments and criticism of each.

Presents a critical perspective from designers, the press and customers for each of 29 different European Fall 1998 fashion collections. Description of the fashion messages for the season.

Profiles Bob Rotella a sports psychologist. How he works with sports figures as well as corporations; His belief in performance enhancement; Background; Rotella's approach as being low-key; His thoughts on the game of golf; Ways in which he helps golfers perform better on the green.

Presents photographs of fashion models exhibiting emotions while posing. The emotions including passion, grief, distress, glee, hysteria, guilt and others.

Profiles Charlotte Parriand, a pioneer in the modernist movement of furniture design. Her start in furniture design; Her attempts to explain the principles underlying her work; Why Parriand is championed by feminist architectural historians.

Reports that women athletes are often asked whether they would be able to find themselves a husband who would appreciate their muscular body. Disqualification of a strong woman from the attentions of an average man; Marriage of track and field athlete, Mildred Didrikson to wrestler George Zaharias; Content of other women in the prevailing notions of the ideal female body.

Presents designs from the spring 1996 fashion collections of Giorgio Armani, Vivienne Westwood and other designers.

Presents photographs of golf clothes for urban golfers.

Presents an interview with Malcolm McLaren. Views on American fashion; Reaction to fashion revivals; Influence on fashion interest.

Features the fashion shows held at the New York Public Library's backyard that lasted for eight days at the end of October 1994. Collections of some 60 designers; Overview of author's experiences with the New York shows.

Focuses on the fashion collection of John Galliano for the spring season of 1995. Invitation tucked inside an old leather-bound book; Show in Paris, France; Elegance of the fifties.

Presents various proposals for re-designing paper money of the United States on exhibit. Aesthetic and practical reasons for re-designing money: Foiling counterfeiters, indulging the artistic spirit, commenting on the social implications of money, and celebrating America.

Presents a discussion between feminist art critic Linda Nochlin and fashion designer Thierry Mugler. Images of women; Femininity as an enterprise; Uses of fashion.

Examines trends in the fashion industry during the 1980s. Factors that characterize the decade's fashion; Comparison of the 1980s fashion with the seventies and the sixties; Top fashion designers during the decade; Comparison between fashion in Paris, France and New York City.

Describes the popularity and fashion sense of designer, Coco Chanel. Profile on designer, Karl Lagerfeld hired by the House of Chanel to design its haute-couture and ready-to-wear collections; Achievements and awards given to Lagerfeld; Reputation and popularity of Coco Chanel focusing on her independence, intellect and success; Brief history of her fashion business; Contributions to the fashion industry.

Looks at the status of the fashion industry in New York City in early 1989. Concerns on the decline of fashion retail sales; Consumers' criticisms on the design offered by fashion designers; Role of the mass media in the marketing of fashion.

Reports on trends in the business and clothing sector in the United States. Examples of organizations which acts as host for the shows of the haute couture and the ready-to-wear in Paris; Growth of ready-to-wear business in the United States; Criteria in designating a house as couture.

Discusses changes in fashion. Fashion column of Lois Long; Age of fashion enlightenment; Preponderance of boleros; Benefits of shoulder pads on a woman's figure; Revival of miniskirts.

Discusses how muscle gyms and fitness centers have become very popular in recent years and have created a wide variety of fashionable looks that have made people's bodies look like costumes. Brian Moss's Better Bodies in Chelsea, New York; The New York Health & Racquet Club; Jean-Paul Gaultier's men's show for the current winter season; The Advanced Step class at Jeff Martin Fitness Studio; The Plus One Fitness Clinic in the World Financial Center; Other clubs; More.

Discusses singer/songwriter Madonna's recent visit to Italy to attend the Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Milan. How Madonna's arrival stirred up such attention from the Italian press; The presentation of Valentino's Oliver collection; The designs that Valentino, Armani, Versace, and others displayed in the 1980s; The collection that Gianfranco Ferre presented; Headlines in the Italian newspapers; The show at the Complice; More.

Profiles John Loring, the design director of Tiffany & Company in its Italian office in Rome. Loring is responsible for every item that Tiffany's sells; He is the latest in a long line of arbiters of American taste; Loring's idealism has a modernist twist on this Puritan tradition; Loring's path to Tiffany & Company; The famous people he has dealt with; More.

Discusses how women want fashion designers to tell them what to wear each season after having two decades of total freedom of fashion due to the feminist movement of the early 1970s. Case of anxiety over limitless choices; Palpable longing to get back to the 1950s when fashion was at its height; Two great designers, Christian Dior and Balenciaga; Return of the seventies fashions; Fashion comes full circle; More.

Muses on fashions at various beaches in the United States. Styles worn at Jones Beach, near Manhattan; Display of one's body in swimwear; Popularity of fluorescent-colored swimwear; Styles at other beaches; Minimalist impasse in bathing suits; East Hampton beach; Weather conditions at these beaches.

Comments on several issues relevant to fashion and aesthetics in 1991. Fashion shows; Fashion models; Fashion designs and clothing trade.

Profiles Susanne Bartsch, organizer of the `Queen of the Night' parties at the Copacabana club in New York City. Her championship of social causes such as AIDS research; Her fashion designs; Biographical details, including her varied careers; Description of the interior of the club and the guests at the parties; Who gets into the club and who doesn't; Her relations with drag queens; Parties in Miami and Louis Canales; Profiles of some of the queens and the party in Miami.

Comments on the emerging fashion trends during a fashion week in Milan, Italy. Recognition of the offer of flattery for the retailers and the members of the press by the Italian community; Impact of numerous fashion shows on the psyche; Need by journalists to find themes to use to characterize a season; Inclination to focus on the what fashion collections have in common; Citation of the impact of the practice in reducing the individual presentations as trends; Difficulty in dealing with the fashion industry due to its tendency to behave in random patterns.

Focuses on the Fashion Group International's show in New York City featuring fall haute couture collections from Paris, France billed as "the young couture". Highlights of the event; Fashion designers selected for the event.

Comments on world politics as of August 27, 1990. Focus on the German unification; Soviet Union's decision to give up control of Eastern Europe; Crisis in the Middle East; Impact of the German unification on Great Britain and France; Political role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Commission; Collapse of the Berlin Wall and its implications for the United States.

Discusses an article published in "Depeche Mode," describing the fashion editor's workday. International air travel with numerous suitcases at a time when porters have been replaced by self-service carts; Long hours spent in pitch-dark tents looking at clothes; Difficulty of booking tables at leading restaurants; Average number of outfits parade watched by fashion editors in a year; State of the fashion industry.

Presents an American's perspective on fashion and dressing practices in Paris, France. Distinction between manner of clothing in New York and those in Paris; Differences in views about feminine beauty and sexuality as expressed in clothing; Tendency of Americans to dress down and of the French to dress up.

Focuses on the popularity of the sportwear design concept among designers in New York and in the United States. Collections of evening gowns inspired by rugged sportswear; Names of designers who utilized the concept on their creations.

Discusses the fashion industry in Milan, Italy. Twenty thousand dollars paid to Cindy Crawford to model for Gianni Versace; Singer Tina Turner at the Giorgio Armani show wearing a pair of Armani pants; 41 fashion shows under the umbrella of the trade association Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana; Moschino's show in which he called aspects of the industry into question.

Features several optical companies. Cutler & Gross by Tony Gross and Graham Cutler; Christina Roth's designing of a line of glasses for his company, Optical Affairs and marketing frames designed by Jean Paul Gaultier; Bausch & Lomb's Ray-Ban aviator glasses; Alain Mikli's design of a collection for Ray-Ban's International division; Design of Oliver Peoples' glasses; Sunglasses at L.A. Eyeworks.

Focuses on the different manners and customs relating to weddings. Emergence of wedding planners who orchestrate the wedding at the instructions of the marrying couple; Services offered by wedding planners; Advantages of hiring a planner; Trends in wedding gowns for the bride and the entourage.

Discusses the prevalence of mail-order catalogs in the United States. Number of catalogs sent out by companies in 1992; Value of mail-order goods bought by adults in 1992; Description of J. Crew's catalog; Absence of old people in catalog-distribution demographics; Catalogs of other clothing and fashion companies; Home-furnishings sector.