5. Find logically connected sentences with the text:
It is joyful to follow fashion.
Men’s attitude to fashion differs from that of women.
Men like their wives to dress well.
6.Read text b Diana’s Style… The allure of the People’s Princess
I cried when I heard Diana, Princess of Wales died. I don’t really understand why. Even when photographed in one of those ghastly hat horrors that we have come to accept as de rigueur for British royalty there was always something so compelling, so visceral, so natural about the Princess of Wales that you absolutely could not resist taking your eyes off her. And when she did get the royal boot and or fell mercy to the public humiliation of her fair prince reportedly saying he would love to be married to a homely, older, and non-charismatic other woman, she only grew more fascinating and even more irresistible. Diana had that certain magnetism which is usually reserved for movie stars, yet if she was an actress her nose would have probably been bobbed and her hair more sexed up. But as a princess, her looks were honest and her appeal was genuine. Her total style has captured the world. And what about her notorious royal look Americans once took notice? Well, maybe it is in her sons, Princes William and Harry who inherited the twinkle in their eyes. Diana had “it” in a society always looking to find it. On the tenth anniversary of her death, Diana Style unfolds the journey of the People’s Princess from simple school girl to her life as a fashion icon with all the delicious style bites in between. “If anything happens to me, do you think people will see me as another Jackie Kennedy?” Diana, Princess of Wales said. Yes, Diana they do.
7.Some useful words and phrases:
allure – чарівливість
ghastly hat horrors – жахливо страшні капелюхи
de rigueur – модний
compelling – чарівний
visceral – інтуїтивний
to get the boot – бути звільненим
to fall mercy – бути відданим на милість
public humiliation – публічне приниження
to be sexed up – містити елементи сексуальності
her appeal was genuine – її звернення було щирим
style bites – родзинки стилю
8.Answer the questions:
What was there so special about Princess Diana’s Style?
What sort of magnetism did Princess Diana have?
How did the world perceive Diana and her style?
9.Reaad the text с, translate it
TEXT C Giorgio Armani
Characteristically dressed in jeans, a white shirt opened at the neck, and a navy cotton pullover, Giorgio Armani (born 1935) designs new fashions in his 16th-century palazzo in Milan. He was given the honorary Neiman Marcus Award, and has built an international reputation - as well as a fortune - on his revolutionary, unstructured jacket for men.
In April of 1982 Time magazine placed the photo of Giorgio Armani on its cover. Armani's first radically different blazer appeared in the fashion world under his own label between 1974 and 1975. His sartorial style exhibited a decidedly relaxed, even rumpled look. The designer softened these new jackets by pulling out the padding and lining and leaving out stiffeners of any kind. He combined thinner lapels with baggier pockets and longer jackets. Armani's unstructured look makes even his English wool suits feel as comfortable as silk pajamas. Armani's suit jackets reflected the defiant, angry mood of political and social unrest. But fashion evolves and Armani's designs changed by the end of the 1970s. Creating what would eventually be known as the "wedge-shaped power suit," Armani extended the shoulders and even added padding to them. The lapels were widened, and the broadest point of the lapel, called the gorge, was lowered.
The effect was similar to a style once worn by Hollywood sex symbols like Clark Gable. Still casual and comfortable, the new style was what the New York Times called a "second sartorial innovation" that endowed men with a "broad-shouldered, slim-hipped glamour."
In 1980, Giorgio Armani USA offered the American market a hybrid of the two styles. His more fluid sport coats of the first half of the decade could be compared to cardigan sweaters, with comfortable, sloping shoulders. These jackets were teamed up with T-shirts for a studied, informal look. The unmistakable Armani style evolved into an even more simplified version of the original blazer. In his spring 1990 women's collection, Armani called attention to the generous flow of jackets by stripping them of superfluous detail.
Armani's feminine version of the menswear jacket looked like it was borrowed from Greta Garbo's closet, or so imply some fashion critics. "My first jackets for women were in fact men's jackets in women's sizes," he told Time magazine. But it's Armani's use of strategically modified menswear fabrics and tailoring in women's suit jackets that is his special contribution. No one had ever done that before. While the jacket forms the foundation of the Armani empire, the Italian designer created a variety of other garments as well. Jackets were gold lame for evening and longer for daytime wear.
Fabrics included silk-lined cotton and mixtures of velvet, silk, wool, and linen, in a variety of patterns and stripes. Whatever Armani chooses to offer in a collection, he is praised for that sense of relaxed comfort. Celebrities still count on Armani to make them look good for Hollywood's major events. Whoopi Goldberg told People, Armani "just makes me look elegant." Other star fans of Armani include Jodie Foster and Jack Nicholson.
Armani describes his individual style as the "correct balance of knowing who you are, what works for you and how to develop your own character."