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...completely at variance with Armani's stylings-rebounded loudly and probably widely, at least to Paris, where the French are strutting their stuff this week. Hard pressed by Armani and his Milanese colleagues in the American market (as much as 70% of the European clothes I. Magnin and Bergdorf Goodman now merchandise are Italian, according to one fashion consultant), the French fashion industry is retaliating with standard operational disdain. "I think Italian designers are certainly worth encouraging," sniffs the mighty Givenchy. "I've never been into Armani's boutique here, or that of any other Italian designer...
...Boston and Worcester, Mass., claims: "The customer wants one incredible piece. This will become a piece from the '80s, the way a Bauhaus or Corbusier was a piece from the 1930s." On the other hand, most leatherwise observers will also agree with Dawn Mello, executive vice president of Bergdorf Goodman: "The thing a woman wants to own now is something in leather, just as she had to have jeans when blue jeans were new and fit just perfectly. But there's more. A woman wants leather because of the quality factor-it's an investment...
...Georgetown, the inconveniences of the Eastern shuttle and the tribulations of a family man tending the flock on Martha's Vineyard. After a while, you're sure there's got to be something more poignant to relate than speculation about Jackie Onnasis' plans to move in next door and Bergdorf Goodman's arrival to follow. If he can't stand the other side of the tracks, then Buchwald should at least venture into a neighborhood with more modest split-levels once in a while...
...Ruttenstein, fashion director at Bloomingdale's, observes: "Norma Kamali took an obvious American idiom and made it sophisticated fashion. The woman who used to wear a suit and blouse now wears her sweats." And Bergdorf Goodman's Executive Vice President Dawn Mello proclaims: "Norma is queen of the sweatshirt. It's like when jeans started. Norma is the new Levi Strauss...
...opening scene may not be original, but it certainly is promising. A very chic heroine (Ali MacGraw) follows a well-dressed man (Alan King) into Bergdorf Goodman and proceeds to slug him repeatedly with her purse. All hell breaks loose in the department store, and it seems that Director Sidney Lumet will transport his audience back to the glory days of Hollywood's glossy romantic comedies. Maybe MacGraw and King are no Lombard and Gable-or Day and Hudson-but at least they seem intent on having a good time. Just Tell Me What You Want looks...