Word: cardinization
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Wicked Alternative. For last month's spring showings, Gernreich arrived togged out in one of his favorite zippered Pierre Cardin "cosmocorps" suits, looking every bit as futuristic as his fashions. Standing fully erect, his 5-ft. 6-in., 138-lb. figure poised with a lithe dancers grace, he told the buyers and press: "A woman today can be anything she wants to be a Gainsborough or a Reynolds or a Reynolds Wrap." Then came a preview of the provocative choices ahead. First was a series of simple knit dresses simple except for the clear vinyl bands that saucily bared...
...high-fashion designers and shops want to climb aboard. Cardin has proclaimed: "Brown has class; it lends an air of distinction." Yves St. Laurent's bestsellers have turned out to be a brown tweed suit with cape and brown velvet evening ensembles. "Brown is such a beautiful color for winter," says French Vogue Editor Francoise de Langlade de La Renta. "So warm, so wonderful against a tanned skin." In Rome, after her trip to Cambodia and Thailand, Jacqueline Kennedy promptly placed an order with her favorite Italian designer, Valentino. Her choice: a wool crepe Mao shirt and matching skirt...
...Tuesday night. It was obvious before Conductor Charles Munch's first downbeat at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees that the Orchestre de Paris was a striking departure from the Parisian norm. Its 110 members were predominantly young (average age: 35). They were dressed alike in midnight blue Pierre Cardin tails with shawl collars and burgundy sashes. And wonder of wonders, they played together, and beautifully...
...remained before his concert at the St.-Tropez Festival, and Pianist Byron Janis, 39, was staring straight into the jaws of une véritable débâcle. His new white dinner jacket, a double-breasted poem in paper limned especially for him by Haute Couturier Pierre Cardin, had proved a grabber in the armpits. "Rush me another," pled the pianist. "I have to move my arms...
Seizing his scissors, Cardin fashioned another, chestier paper jacket, put it on the evening jet from Paris to Nice, whence it was whisked by helicopter to Janis mere moments before the performance. Pausing only to snip off some excess sleeve, Janis donned the coat and played his concert to pandemonious applause. And why a paper dinner jacket in the first place? Well, in the first place it's pretty chic; and-uh-Janis works up quite a sweat...