... in Tokyo 1981- Presents first collection in Paris 1982- Receives the 26th Fashion Editors Club Award, Tokyo 1984- Introduces menswear line 1986- Receives the 4th Mainichi Fashion Award, Tokyo 1989- Wim Wenders" film portrait of Yohji Yamamoto "Notebook on Cities an Clothes" 1990- Designs costumes for the Opera de Lyon productions of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" 1991- Introduces underwear line ... 1991- Receives the 35th Fashion Editors Club Award, Tokyo 1993- Designs costumes for the Wagner Opera "Tristan and Isolde" in Bayreuth 1994- Receives the "Chevalier do l"Ordre des Arts et Lettr...

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Victorian Men are "aristocrats [that] move in their gilded circles from opera to dinner to drawing room, with a costume for every role and every time of day." (Ebert 3) Newland Archer was one of these ... was "the thing." "[I]n the first place, New York was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was "not the thing" to arrive early at the opera; and it what was or was not "the thing" played a part as important in Newland Archer's New York- (Wharton 4) The descendants of an aristocratic family were ... Museum, and the spectacle of those great spaces crowded with spoils of th...

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... Europe to the Americas, it was not until the early 1900's that Northern America would raise up it's first American composer to break through the music scene in a whole new fashion. George Girshwin was the man to take music to a whole new level that would even be apart of what fueled such a radical American movement known in history as the Roaring ... , his parents moved George on to a gentleman by the name of Mr. Goldberg who, for one dollar and fifty cents an hour, had him progress to musical works such as opera overtures and arias. When his skill was matched to his teacher's, he was in...

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