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When he was first hired, Beringer Blass sent him to Florence to study Italian for a month.
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The big guns of style were Calvin Klein and Bill Blass, both unaffordable to most working women.
In 1970, after some 25 years of growing success in the rag trade, he launched himself as Bill Blass Ltd.
In fact, his Beringer Blass vita was fairly dolce, said Mr. Pott.
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Polish-born Simcha Blass is credited with introducing new "spaghetti tubes" to Israel in the 1950s, with longer passageways that would not get blocked by small particles.
Mr Blass had a few lessons at an art school, and was taken on as an artist and odd-job man by a clothes manufacturer.
He left Beringer Blass in 2004 and went to work for Quintessa, a high-profile winery in the Oakville district of Napa, for a few years.
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For young Bill Blass the local cinemas promised another world, of glamour, where people did nothing all day except wear nice clothes and have a good time.
When Hobbs told him it was "the exact thing Bill Blass would have loved, " Romualdez says the deal was cinched not surprisingly: Romualdez had also acquired Blass's iconic and much-photographed Connecticut house.
The professor of Psychology at University College London, Rachel Blass, argues that it's quite wrong to dismiss people's feelings or emotions simply because these don't show up well in an fMRI scan.
But his enterprises, and his personality, generated valuable publicity, and Mr Blass sold licences to attach his name to a wide range of products: scent, luggage, chocolate, furnishings, nearly 100 items in all.
The designers at this week's spring 2004 Fashion Week shows under the tents in New York City's Bryant Park feature the industry's biggest names, including Kenneth Cole, Perry Ellis, Anne Klein and Bill Blass.
Ryan Block, Evan Blass, Thomas "Oh, daddy" Ricker, Joshua "Businessman" Topolsky, Paul "Tapless" Miller, Nilay Patel, Chris "Ziggie Smalls" Ziegler, Darren Murph, Sean "Sarnie" Cooper, Ben Drawbaugh, Richard Lawler, Steve Kim, Erik Hanson, Barb Dybwad, Chris Grant, Trent Wolbe, Dante "Express" Cesa, Jose Andrade, Ittousai, Andy Yang, Atticus Wu, and, of course, Peter Rojas!
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