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Labeled Kookie. "If you'd asked my mother who Balenciaga was," said the other surprise winner, Broadway's Barbra Streisand, who showed up in eighth place,* "she would have thought it was a grocery store in Brooklyn." Nor had Barbra (TIME cover, April 10, 1964) got there by the Bendel route; she designs her own clothes-a golden sable coat with a middy collar, a green brocade suit of the same material as her bedroom walls and, for accessories, old beaded bags with real jewel clasps and new shoes with old buckles. The Couture Group liked it, cited...
...have been more urbane. Mother Anne Mc Donnell Ford arrived on the arm of her current escort, Ted Bassett, a kind of all-purpose man about town who posed for photographers between Christina and Henry. Uzielli's parents, also divorced, were there too. Mama was wearing a Balenciaga, and Papa, who works with Gianni at stockbroking, was squiring his second wife. At evening's close, as the last of the Piper Heidsieck '59 bubbled away, Henry pronounced himself well pleased. "Great party, eh?" he inquired of newsmen while he thumped Gianni on the back. "He planned...
...Phoenix benefit. The Women had changed, if ever so subtly. To bring the text up to date for the performance of the 44-girl cast-all played by Phoenician socialite amateurs -Playwright Luce had used her author's prerogative to pencil in changes. "Look, Schiaparelli!" became "Look, Balenciaga!" "No one has mistaken you for Mrs. Harrison Williams yet" was changed to "for Princess Radziwill"; "I wish I could make up my mind whether or not I like Shirley Temple" was updated to "whether I like the Beatles." Originally, when the cigarette girl asked...
...young feeling infected even Balenciaga, who at 72 is considered the Michelangelo of the trade. The master put his hostesses in white stretch pants under taupe chiffon or gold lamé topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...
...dress of the month, and sounds one of the strongest fashion chords of 1965: the one-bare shoulder look. Jackie Kennedy may have triggered the trend when she wore a black crepe version for her first formal outing after a year of mourning. It has been used by Balenciaga in a $3,000 evening sari, by Givenchy in a flock of dinner gowns and daytime dresses, and by most top U.S. designers, whose fall lines were previewed this month. Vogue calls it "the Asymmetric Look," but Seventh Avenue has a better name: the cold shoulder...