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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Dressing For Success?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 26
- BUSINESS
- Dressing For Success?
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- <body>
- <p> With the lira down and the nation rocked by the Mani Pulite,
- or Clean Hands, kickback investigations, Italians need some good
- economic news. They looked for it, naturally, in the Milan fall
- ready-to-wear shows, just ended, hoping in part that a
- recovering U.S. economy will send a windfall of clothing orders
- their way. One enticement: with the weaker lira, price tags will
- be at least 15% lower than last year's. But the critics' reviews
- were mixed. Clown motifs, gold frogging, Tyrolean touches or
- military flourishes cluttered many of the outfits and seemed
- inappropriate for local customers who are trying to hide their
- wealth. In the end old masters Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco
- Ferre walked off with the honors--and, by no mere
- coincidence, the least brazen collections.
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- </body>
- </article>
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