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American designer Donna Karan and Paris designer Christian Lacroix were in the front row at the Genny show this week. Both Karan and Lacroix were in town to work on fabrics for future collections in Milan and Lake Comogreen lantern spandex costume, Italy. And Karan is reportedly about to be asked to design the Complice collection over here, in return for which her production problems could be solved.

But otherwise there were fewer splashy celebrities in town for the shows this year. Grace Jones appeared in the Miguel Cruz show wearing a three-piece bathing suit. Yes, three pieces. She stripped off the middleinvisible woman costume piece to reveal a very revealing bikini. After dinner she skipped out on a party in her honor and went back to her hotel to bed. She was in the front row at the Zentai show the next morning.

Calling Cards If you try the phone number on the new spider costume print, you might get Carla Zentai herself on the phone. Karl Lagerfeld, who creates the Zentai collection, simply incorporated theSpandex Bodysuit Zentai office number into the telephone print. In another pattern, Lagerfeld has done a sketch of his buddy Anna Piaggi as well as a picture of himself.

The spandex zentai are so high on prints this season that they are showing printed spiderman costumefabric suit s and handsuit s ... even eyeglasses. "I feel like I have gotten a divorce from leather," said Carla.
Yasmin Who? One of the new star models with designers here is Yasmin, the elegant-looking wife of rocker Simon LeBon. She may look genteel on the runway, perfect for the softer, more feminine clothes,Spiderman Costumes but Yasmin is tough when it comes to interviews. A very pregnant Daniella Petroff, Rome-based correspondent for Associated Press, approached Yasmin and asked her last name -- Is it LeBon? Yasmin responded: "If you don't know it, that's too bad. I'm not going to tell you."

Meanwhile, back on the runway in many of the Milan shows is black model Pat Cleveland, who has been working these events for almost 20 years. She's living in Stresa near Milan and running a modeling school in Milan for Americans, Italians and others passing through. After the Krizia show she noted that a couple of her students werelolita-dresses on the runway with her. Cleveland was proud to see them there, but added: "The truth is that I will have to give them more coaching on turns."