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...SCENE TWO. Saturday afternoon in Chelsea. Up from the Sloane Square tube station swarm the guys and dollies, girls in miniskirts (three to six inches above the knee) or bell-bottom trousers. The morning has been spent "raking" among the Edwardian bric-a-brac, dusty candelabra and other antiques in the stalls on Portobello Road. Now, as if by a common instinct, the whole flock homes in on King's Road, site of such bird boutiques as Bazaar, and Granny Takes a Trip, as well as Hung On You, the "kinkiest" (wildest) men's shop, which features...
Noblesse oblige: over the years, Prince Antony Radziwill stuck to his obligations, first as a waiter at the Blue Cockatoo in Chelsea and then as wine steward at the Hertford Hotel in London's Bayswater. Finally the noblesse paid off. To celebrate his promotion to "joint head barman" at the hotel, "Mr. Tony," whose cousin, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, is the husband of Jackie Kennedy's sister, Lee, stirred up a dry martini. Said he: "I pride myself on knowing how to make them...
...Manhattan's Arnold Constable, the show belonged to Caroline Charles, one of the dozen young designers of the "Chelsea Revolution" whose presumptuous styles have forced even the London fog to lift. Backed by the wailing beat and flanked by dancers in fishnet stockings, the Charles collection mesmerized a series of teen-age audiences. And music, as sales figures testify, has something to do with fashion. Said Caroline, to the rhythmic sound of amplified guitars: "Dig one, you're bound to dig the other...
...began some eight years ago, when young Mary Quant, now, at 30, the doyenne of the, group, grew weary of wearing her cousin's castoffs, set up shop, sewing and selling her own designs. Instantly British teenagers, themselves weary of the butch look, flocked to the tiny Chelsea workroom, emerged looking more like Cossacks and guardsmen, sailors and hockey players. Audacious in concept, vivid in execution and realistically priced ($20 and up), Mary Quant's offbeat styles (a typical dress trimmed red flannel with black lace, included a striped bodice and a quilted hem) caused such a local...
Same Wave. But it is Caroline Charles, 22, who most precisely defines the essence of the Chelsea Look. Veteran of a peripatetic childhood (as the daughter of an army officer, she followed the campfires from Cairo to Germany to Surrey), a convent education ("I went through all the phases, from knitting to riding to weaving") and a short stint at art school, she put in an apprentice term selling dresses for Mary Quant, last year opened her own store in a Belgravia basement. Then Jordan's Princess Muna spotted her in one of her bright new coats...