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Article: SHEER PROVOCATION: FASHION DESIGNERS RESORT TO SLEAZE.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 30, 1996
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There's something about spring that brings out the sleaze in fashion designers.
Each fall when they unveil their spring/summer collections to retail stores and the fashion media, they always include things the fashion police should impound. Like shorts cut so high in back they're cheeky, or dresses cut like aprons that don't cover much of anything - to cite just a couple of examples from past seasons.
This week, as designers are showing spring '97, the sleaze factor is high. Very high. Those here expecting to see ready-to-wear clothing walk down the runways are seeing lingerie instead.
At the D&G collection, by the Italian team of Dolce and ...