Forget waifs and Greek widows and fashion nuns and meter maids. Fashion's new best friend is the Park Avenue princess.
Expensiveness is back in style.
The runways were awash in fur. Not just fur coats and jackets, but miles of fur trim. Designers still liked snake, but they liked alligator and crocodile better, and not just for shoes and bags. Suedes and leathers replaced cashmere as the fabric of choice. And, after a couple of years of way too many twinsets, designers rehabilitated the ladylike suit and the genteel silk blouse with a pussycat bow at the neck.