William Norwich
Articles by William Norwich
Style Diary: August 12, 1996
[Ed. note: this column was originally published on August 12th, 1996.]
The neighbors had sex last week. You know how it sounds, like cats being thrown into the sky. “Temptation hangs in the summer air,” The New York Times recently reported. Welcome to August.
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Mizrahi Protégées Velasco Andersson Are the New Big Thing
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Zitomer's Goes to the Dogs (and Cats)
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They Don't Make Rich Folks Like They Used To
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Phyllis Stine Gets a Job!
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Tea With Ronnie Cooke Newhouse
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Beefcake : How Bob Mizer Pioneered Male Crotch-Shots
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Candy Pratts Price Preps Dec. VH1- Vogue Fashion Awards
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Phyllis Stine's Faves: 'Palm Bitch' and 'Ghetto Fabulous'
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Private Dinner at Nicole Farhi's Megastore Launches Fashion Week
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Dior to Bardot: Get Your Own Dress!
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Woody Allen, Tina Turner, Bill Gates Love Crisp Porthault Linens
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Can $6,800 Gucci Pants Save Men's Fashion?
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Phyllis Stine Copes With the Paris Heat Wave
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No Assistants. No Entourage. Just John.
PARIS-As hope here faded that CNN would interrupt its global broadcast with the image of John F. read more »
Paris' Fashion Aristocracy Mourns the Kennedys
What would you wear if you were having your portrait painted? read more »
London Design Power Couple Reigns in the Post-Taste Age
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Phyllis Stine's Diary: Story Proposals for Harper's Bazaar
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ABC Weatherman Has Lots of Friends-When It's Sunny
There's usually a little frisson of excitement if you hang around long enough in the neighborhood of read more »
Keith Richards' Son Brings Anti-Fashion to the MTV-Weary
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Millennial Fashion: Mourners in Pastel, Celebrities Everywhere
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Oscar de la Renta, Social Emperor of New York
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Phyllis Stine's Diary
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WWD 's Fashion Illustrator Gets a Show of His Own
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Anita Ekberg: Squeezed Like a Lemon
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The Phyllis Stine Diaries: Phyllis Meets Freud
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Her Majesty's Craftsman Nephew Hits Pay Dirt in the New World
In a city of trendy restaurants larded with piercing decibels and fussy ingredients, a great locus o read more »
Designer of the Moment Tony Melillo Learns to Get Happy
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Sugar Rautbord, Chicago Socialite, Salutes the Women of Reinvention
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Struggling for a Fashion-Forward Pregnancy
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Gianfranco Ferré and the Architecture of Design
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Former Designer Carolyne Roehm Makes a Cottage Industry Out of Flowers
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Liz Smith Takes a Tour Through Christie's Dresses of Oscars Past
"Is Army Archerd going to greet us at the end of this hall?" said Liz Smith, wending her way down a read more »
Anna Sui's New Line Reveals Some Familiar Motifs: Romance, Optimism, Change
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Phyllis Stine's London Fashion Week Diary
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Fashion Week's Conundrum: How to Combine Art and Commerce?
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A Former Model Finds Beauty on the Other Side of the Camera
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A Eurocentric Designer Descends on New York
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After a Fright in Paris, a Decorator Returns to New York Minimalism
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Phyllis Stine Does Paris Couture Shows
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Stephanie Seymour Has a Few Secrets to Tell You
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The Good Girls of New York's Junior Establishment
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Divorcee Phyllis Stine Meets Her Psychic Hero
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Introducing Russian Vogue
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Meet Bill Blass, Magazine Editor!
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Carolona Herrera Asks Why Women All Wear the Same Thing
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Phyllis Stine's Diary
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Touring Sephora With Pia Getty
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