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mh9S CUTTING-EDGE FRENCH DESIGNER TAKES A SLICE AT MIAMI 06/30/1995
THE MIAMI HERALD
Copyright (c) 1995, The Miami Herald
DATE: Friday, June 30, 1995 EDITION: FINAL
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: 2B LENGTH: 88 lines
ILLUSTRATION: photo: Ian Schrager (a) , Gwen BOYD
SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: JOAN FLEISCHMAN Herald Columnist
MEMO: TALK OF OUR TOWN
CUTTING-EDGE FRENCH DESIGNER TAKES A SLICE AT MIAMI
Parlez-vous English?
New York hotelman Ian Schrager is wringing his hands. Here his $22
million baby -- the remodeled Delano Hotel on Miami Beach -- opens today, and
his cutting-edge French designer Philippe Starck is telling everyone Miami is
a city of "terrible" style, "not very sophisticated."
"An unfortunate misunderstanding, " insists Schrager. "He may have said
things that offended people. It hurts me because we were very careful not to
come down to Miami like big shots, not to come down here and tell people the
way things are meant to be done."
Schrager says Starck is misunderstood. "There's a language problem. He's
French. Sometimes he says things, and they sort of get misconstrued. Not
misquoted."
Again and again? To The New York Times? To Vanity Fair? And most
recently, to The Herald? Did everyone get it wrong?
"He didn't mean that. It's not the way he feels -- and it's certainly not
the way I feel. What he's alluding to is that we're trying to do something
special. We're trying to take Miami into the next century."
Starck was not around to say how he feels. He's in Singapore, undoubte.ly
a stylish and sophisticated place.
i . '. • -__ ' -: .- ' -- : ' . :oy• married ' ann po i-e 'a .
Roberson own. Boyd, 41, a 21-year veteran who heads the detective ••reau,
,first methrown, 42, a personnel manager, when he joined the force n 1981.
"I tauq t his class when he went through the police academ she says.
kshe now calls\herself Maj . Brown, too.
Among the"•uests: Miami Police Chief Don Warshaw; for '- r Chief Clarence
ickson, one of : own's best men; Urban League President . Willard Fair;
iami Commissioner •illie Gort; Assistant City Manage- Angela Bellamy; Flori.a
ity Police Chief Art .shington; and civic activi Georgia Jones-Ayers. Sh;
ang The Bells of St. Mar and The Lord's P . er. A 10-member Honor Guard
ich Brown commands, formed . - arch with t. it swords for the couple to wal
u der after their nuptials. At th- recep 'on, the Honor Guard had to forgo t e
b bbly -- no drinking in uniform all. -d.
Maj . Brown and Maj. Brown ho - oo -d in the Caribbean, aboard the
N rwegian Cruise Line's Seawar• .
"Not the one that cau. • on fire," says •aj . Brown. Roberson, that is.
The Dade state orney's office won't .•rosecute Armando Pico, the
W TV-Channel 23 came : .n arrested last month on .n armed robbery charge for
s posedly snatch' g WTVJ-Channel 4 photographer Ricky Morris' camera at
g npoint.
"Too m - evidence tending to show he may not be the person," says
prosecutor Sandra Miller. "I have witnesses who placed him elsewhere at the
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