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Luxurious Demand. "Consumer spending is not falling, but it is shifting -from autos to services, from appliances to apparel,'' says Commerce Department Economist Louis Paradise. The housing collapse has hurt markets for furniture, floor coverings, refrigerators and washers. Yet retailers note substantial increases in demand for costly clothes, furs and diamonds, despite a nervous stock market which could be expected to cut sales of luxury goods. Sales of color TV sets will climb from 2,750,000 last year to about 4,750,000; actually, TV makers could do much better were they not slowed by shortages...
...climbing and may continue to do so. In June, there was an increase in the tab for beauty treatments, auto insurance, medical care and other services. Clothing tags are expected to rise 5% to 10% next month as a result of pay increases recently granted to textile and apparel workers...
This dedication did not escape Maxey Jarman, the Nashville corporate builder whose giant Genesco Inc. (annual sales: $589 million) owns Bonwit's and 63 other apparel companies. Jarman likes to have women executives around: he picked Jerry Stutz for Henri Bendel, also a Genesco subsidiary, and his House of Fragrance perfume and cosmetic company is headed by President Helen Van Slyke. "Women who are interested in a career and have a feminine viewpoint," says Jarman, "usually have intuitiveness as well as good promotion and advertising sense." Casting around for a new boss to replace resigning William L. Smith, Jarman...
...Guinovart, 37, is a Barcelona favorite who started with social realism, then did stage décor for García Lorca plays. The stocky artist turned to collages, attaching everyday apparel to his somber canvases. His Homage to Valdés Leal attempts to express the tremendous force of a 17th century artist in a volcanic surface that belches up actual objects...
...Minnesota hills to which Candy has retreated in search of the beautiful life. Thrilled when Great Grindle himself agrees to tutor her on the path that leads to "Infinite Oneness," Candy eagerly submits to the various exercises and lessons proposed. Naturally, the path cannot be followed until all "wordly apparel" is discarded. Candy, maidenly modest, objects, but who is she to argue with Great Grindle...