Fame and Fashion. Jianni Versace
Jianni Versace believed in pushing to the limit. His leathers were sleazy, his dresses fit the body like a wet glove. His clothes eroticized, even prettified men, they imparted a tough edge to women. Jianni Versace believed in pushing to the limit. His leathers were sleazy, his dresses fit the body like a wet glove. His clothes eroticized, even prettified men, they imparted a tough edge to women. As a designer he could be titillating, outrageous, bombastic, vulgar, classic, avant-garde and, of course, wildly expensive. He became known as much for the way he presented his fashions – on the runway, in advertising and in lavish “image books”- as for the clothes themselves. His approach was always provocative, irreverent, even shocking.
Versace has made much being a “rock’n’ roll designer”. Certainly he had long made custom stage clothes for his musician friends, from Elton John’s Captain Fantastic look to the Artist Formerly Known as Prince’s satin jackets and snakeskin pants for the Gold Experience Tour.
But Versace’s vision went away beyond that Versace simply loved rock’n’ roll and the freedom that it stood for. His shows were staged like rock’n’ roll shows, with great pounding sountracks. Born in 1946 in the town of Ressio Calabra, in Italy, Versace was the son of a dressmaker. Like many other important designers, he learned to make clothes at an early age. He studied architecture but soon became involved in his career. He served as a buyer for his mother’s boutique business, worked for a series of ready-to-wear companies. His first solo men’s collection was in 1979. He also designed for women.
Exercise 4. Answer the following questions
1. What was his approach?
2. When and where was he born?
3. What do you know about his family?
4. Did he design for women?
5. When did he first present his solo men’s collection?
GRAMMAR COMMENT
| Complete the rule with COLOUR, MATERIAL, SHAPE When we have more than one adjective before a noun, they usually come in this order: opinion, size or __________, texture, pattern or___________, ___________+noun |
- Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.
- wearing/ shoes/ elegant / black/ She's high-heeled
She's wearing elegant black high-heeled shoes
- a/That's/ stripy/shirt/smart / cotton
- dress/ wearing/ cotton/ an/ awful/ She's/ flowery
- wool/ at / mini-skirt/check/ Look/ beautiful/ that
- stripy/ blue/ like/ your/ hoody/ I/ baggy
- shiny/ is / roll neck/ great/ This/ nylon/ a
- leggings/ tight/ wearing/ ridiculous/ She's/ furry
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· Rewrite the sentences that are incorrect.
1. lt's a yellow smart polo shirt.
2. They're leather tight trousers.
3. lt's a baggy flowery t p.
4. They're wool spotty socks.
5. They're long stripy trousers.
6. lt's a furry warm fleece.
Exercise 5. T 1.01 [3,p. 4]. Listen to a fashion show commentary. Complete the phrase from the commentary.
1 an attractive____________, brown___________jacket
2 a____________,__________T-shirt
3 casual,_________,black jeans
4 a____________, grey,__________ jacket
5 a large____________scarf
6 a____________, dark, __________coat
Exercise 6 T 1.07 [3, p. 17] Listen to part of a radio programme. Decide whether the information in each sentence (1-8) is true, false or not stated in the programme.
| Everybody’s “wardrobe personality” is one of four types: Dramatic, Classic, Romantic or Natural | True | False | Not stated |
| Dramatic personalities like to be looked at | |||
| Dramatics do not wear designer clothes | |||
| Classic personalities enjoy quiet hobbies like gardening | |||
| Classics spend the most on clothes of any type | |||
| Make-up is not very important for Romantic personalities | |||
| Natural personalities are comfortable in either casual or formal clothes | |||
| “Extreme Naturals” risk dressing too casually for some situations |
Exercise 7. Look at the words for describing clothes in the box. Make a list of the clothes you can see in the pictures adding one adjective to each.
a stripy top, a shiny coat…
| Describing clothes patterns:check flowery plain spotty stripy shape:baggy long loose short tight texture:creased furry shiny smooth materials:cotton fur leather nylon wool other:high-heeled long-sleeved matching short-sleeved |
Exercise 8.
| I think he looks cool /awful/ ridiculous. |
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| awful beautiful cool elegant great ridiculous scruffy smart stylish trendy |
1. Choose the right variant.
She’s wearing an ______ flowery cotton dress
a) awful
b) beautiful
c) smart
d) nylon
2. Choose the right variant.
Look at that beautiful check ______mini-skirt
a) wooling
b) wooled
c) wooly
d) wool
3. Choose the right variant.
This is great shiny nylon roll-_______
a) leg
b) back
c) neck
d) arm
4. Choose the right synonym to the underlined word.
She’s wearing ridiculous tight furry leggings
a) comfortable
b) absurd
c) smart
d) great
GLOSSARY
| English | Russian | Kazakh |
| Ridiculous[rɪˈdɪkjʊləs] | Нелепый | Оғаш |
| Sleazy[ˈsliːzɪ] | Тонкий | Жұқа |
| Lavish [ˈlævɪʃ] | Щедрый, расточительный | Жомарт, ысырапты |
| Titillating [ˈtɪtɪleɪtiƞ] | Щекотливый(вопрос) | Жауапты |
| Scruffy[ˈskrʌfɪ] | Нерящливый | Алғыр-салғыр |
| Creased[kriːst] | Отутюженный (о брюках) | Үтіктелген (шалбар туралы) |
| Smooth /smuːð/ | Неотразимый | Күшті әсер беретін |
| SIW № 21 | Make power point presentation: “I’ve been to a fashion show” |
| Office hours № 7 | Write a dialogue. “An interview with fashion designer” |
| Write the clothes you wear to go out with friends: to play sport: to go to school: |
References
Main literature
1. Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Intermediate Students Book. Oxford, 2010.
2. Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Intermediate Workbook. Oxford, 2010.
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