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...arranged: five top French couturiers, including Pierre Cardin and Hubert de Givenchy, would reach across the Atlantic to Halston, Anne Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Stephen Burrows and Bill Blass. Together they would have a ball scarving, belting, bigskirting or otherwise adorning the likes of Liza Minnelli, Josephine Baker and Capucine. The performers, together with ordinary mannequins, would stage a kind of high-budget vaudeville called "Le Grand Divertissement à Versailles." The money? Ah, yes, patrons like the Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild would angel the operation, and people like Amanda Burden, Princess Grace, the Charles...
...Paris fashion shows; and in the summer they are house guests of the Aga Khan at his Riviera pad. They often jet to Manhattan, check into their Park Avenue apartment, visit Pamela's sister and brother-in-law Peter Duchin, and dine with such friends as Designer Bill Blass, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Moving and Revlon Chairman Charles Revson. At home Bob Sakowitz lives high in the saddle. He entertains the prime of Houston society at his colonial-style estate, wheels around in an $18,000 Lamborghini and is perennially listed among the nation's ten best-dressed...
Closely knit to the fabric boom is the greater availability of patterns by such designers as Yves St. Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Bill Blass. The concept is not new. Vogue put out its first high-fashion patterns back in 1949. But until recently there was a long lag between the appearance of a new style and its patterned reproduction. Now companies frequently turn out paper copies of Paris originals within weeks of a showing, long before ready-to-wear has even finished the basting. The home sewer, able to stitch in time, thus can stay in fashion more readily than...
...Bill Blass, who "can't remember the last time I did a strapless dress," produced several for his spring collection. Perhaps the most "in" designer of all, Halston, who numbers Jackie Onassis and Candice Bergen among his clients, believes that "the well-exercised body should not be encased." But he wisely concentrates on baring the safest female area for general display-the back. One slinky black jersey by Halston has a centerfold cutout scooped so low that it frames the lady's sacrum, covering only her ilium...
...Among those who have bought the new models are Marcello Mastroianni, David Steinberg and Clint Eastwood. (Henry Kissinger, Frank Sinatra and Bob Newhart, who still wear the older version on occasion, are back in style.) Zarem reports that Bonwit's has sold more than 150 dozen of the Blass button-downs to New Yorkers since first offering them in October. "Response," he says, "has been fantastic. For older customers, it represents a security blanket . . . they relate to everything it represents: flannels, tweeds and oxford cloth. The younger customers see it as part of the classic revival in fashions...