Eleganza: Dress for Excess
John Mendelsohn, Creem, July 1983
Eleganza returns! This one-time fave fab fashion column, as you may know, oozed away slowly in the past few years for "reasons" we don't need to recount here. So, we ask, what better way to resuscitate it than by handing it over to one-time (and current) fave fab writer/musician/all-around charismatic guy John Mendelssohn who will go to any lengths to go to any lengths, every month?
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