Word: applique
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork belt pouches and spats and the cobra gladiator vest at Kamali. Betsey, Bunky and Nini, another boutique, has appliquéd snakeskin stars onto belts and has imported Ossie Clark's $200 cobra patchwork waist jacket. Manhattan's Casa Cuero boutique isn't interested in just any old snake; it is boa that turns them on and their patrons out-in midis, minis, jeans and jackets...
...Cover: Appliquéd banner by Norman Laliberté. The artist depicts no particular tribesman nor any specific art motif. "The Indian is much more universal," says Laliberté. "I tried to use the colors they use and to relate the Indian to the bird, representing freedom and peace." By positioning the bird atop the figure, Laliberté intends it as a kind of crown "to show the kingship and the power before the white man came...