Before Phoebe Philo's surrealist reinvention, Birkenstock's previous runway apotheosis came in 1992, when Marc Jacobs used them in his notorious grunge collection, for Perry Ellis.
Shifting shapes that, like those in Rei Kawakubo's notorious hump collection, were in fact adapted from silhouettes seen in everyday life, resulted in crisp proportional shifts.
In the 60s and 70s, bands went to Rive Gauche for stagewear; Mick and Bianca Jagger wed in matching white tuxedos (Bianca's from the notorious 40s collection).
Or was she merely responding — the way Rei Kawakubo, the Comme des Garçons designer, once did with her notorious padded hump collection — to something already hidden in plain sight?
The D.J. Grandmaster Flash's worn-out copies of a Bob James album, tucked away near the floor of one case, and the Notorious B.I.G.'s collection of 45-r.p.m. singles demonstrate that scratching, the D.J.s' percussive innovation, definitely made scratches.
Variations have sprung up over the years on the runways of designers like Marc Jacobs, who more than once reprised elements of his notorious Perry Ellis grunge collection of 1994, and Alexander Wang, whose shows are often interspliced with '90s references: slouchy T-shirts, slashed leathers, gladiator boots.
To finance it she sold Mr. Kienholz's notorious 1964 assemblage "Back Seat Dodge '38" to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it is a defining highlight of the collection.
Hospitals are notorious for sending bills to collection agencies after even just one late payment, Ms. Detweiler said.
This collection's most notorious essay, "The Naked and the Conflicted," which first appeared in The New York Times Book Review, is also its best.
The debt collection industry is notorious for breaking the law and harassing consumers who owe or have owed money.
