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...Courrèges, 44, had buyers at his latest showing sitting on their hands. But Courrèges is finding a happier home in the U.S. Boutiques carrying Courreges frocks at prices ranging from $200 to $500 have opened to sensational applause at Sakowitz Bros, in Houston and Bonwit Teller in New York. Bonwit's peddled 150 outfits the first day, leading Andre to confirm that he will spend six months a year in the U.S. "The American way of thinking," he noted, "corresponds...
...since grown to eight stores). "We had far-out things of our own," says Hanson, "so we had a ready-made clientele for Rudi's stuff, and we pushed him." The three-way association worked profitably for seven years. In 1959, Gernreich and Bass separated. Four years later, with Bonwit Teller anxious to carry Gernreich's clothes and Hanson determined to have him exclusively or not at all, they too broke. "Rudi is a supreme egotist," says Bass, who now runs gas stations. Echoes Hanson: "He's a publicity hound...
...Bonwit Teller. "I'll tell you how they feel," said one Washington boot buyer. "They feel hot." Yet, so much have boots become this year's look that they are sweeping even balmy Southern California. "I didn't think women would take to them because of the climate here," said I. Magnin Vice President Russell Carpenter, "but we can hardly keep them in stock." And when Gloria Swanson stalked onstage in Los Angeles recently in a tattersall minisuit and shiny black hip boots, the whole audience instantly erupted with shouts of "Brava...
...Manhattan, Best & Co. has already opened its new boutique, "The Hardware Shop," and is urging its customers to "show their metal." On the same nuts-and-bolts theme, Bonwit Teller in Chicago is boasting that one of its belts, an Yves St. Laurent creation of plastic and gold-colored metal, is "causing a chain reaction...
...ever employed to seduce men," two of France's biggest ready-to-wear designers, Daniel Hechter and Jacques Delahaye, are now showing "maxi jupes" for autumn that reach all the way down to the midcalf. Hechter and Delahaye, who sell to leading department stores the world over, including Bonwit Teller and Neiman Marcus, are receiving orders for them by the thousands. In the U.S., three fast-rising young ready-to-wear designers-Coty Award Winner Dominic of Matty Talmack, plus Chester Weinberg and Luba of Elite-are suggesting the "midi dress," with hem 4 in. below the knee...