Word: bonwit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other New York designers have gone Chinese as well, although most of the designer-created lines will not hit the national market until next year. At Bonwit Teller, however, the flashy, far-out ideas of Giorgio di Sant'Angelo are on display now. His basic looks include a dolman-sleeved, high-waisted body suit, with a loose, short-sleeved long robe that goes over it. "I think this will replace the poncho," he says. "In winter, the Chinese sometimes wear six of these robes-the layered look is really very Chinese...
...shopping centers, but a lively exception is Chicago's North Michigan Avenue. During the past decade, $2 billion worth of construction has risen on and near North Michigan, which Chicagoans call "the Magnificent Mile." California's 1. Magnin has just opened a branch there, joining already established Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue of New York, as well as such fashionable shops as Tiffany and Cartier. Soon they will be joined by Dallas' Neiman-Marcus. Two weeks ago came the biggest news of all. Chicago's retailing giant, Marshall Field & Co., whose main store...
...high-necked sweater with buttons on the shoulders and Bill Blass's long-sleeved U-neck. "When we get in a new shipment from either one," says a Saks spokesman, "they're almost gone by the end of the day." Other top-ranking New York stores like Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor and Henri Bendel are also having trouble keeping sweaters in stock. An equally impressive testimonial to sweater popularity is the experience of Mr. G. in Beverly Hills. "Three years ago," says Garland, "we were selling 25 dresses for every sweater. Today we don't even carry...
...each has begun to find inanimate objects more sexually attractive than the other's beautiful body. Adam's attentions have turned toward the Orion, a new model car General Motors is preparing to foist upon the public; Erica, in turn, has taken to shoplifting small items from the local Bonwit-Teller's. Brett DeLosanto, meanwhile, is facing the classic dilemma of the artist-in-society: should he continue to design cars or should he flee to California and make sculptures out of automobile parts? And poor emerson Vale--consumer crusader and author of "The American Car: Unsure in Any Need...
They just haven't been buying, but now they're tempted." Blass, whose forte is the tailored look, says that "we learned last year the best we can do is make suggestions." Elaine Honest, vice president and merchandise manager for designer fashions at Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, agrees: "We're ready for some sensible clothes. We've had every ethnic look possible over the past year...