Word: chiffoned
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...purchases ($8,000), he dashed out to do more shopping. He returned shortly with new luggage to hold his purchases, then dashed off to catch a plane. At Lina Lee, an Iranian woman spent less than five minutes?and more than $ 1,900 ?buying three silk and chiffon daytime dresses. Asked if she wanted to try them on, she replied, "No, no, I love them. I just know I want them...
Saint Laurent's new diaphanous chiffon dresses, often edged in ruffles, left no doubt about the feminine silhouette within. "They are much more feminine and easy to wear than the wide, stiff taffeta gowns of the earlier collections," proclaimed Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, of his $2,000-to-$7,500 designs...
After his fight with Moore, for instance, the author heard that the Duchess d'Uzes was delivered to the door of Stillman's Gym in a Rolls-Royce. "She paused at the turnstile, a lovely, graceful girl who always wore long light-blue chiffon to set off her golden hair. She peered into the gloom. 'Where's everybody?' she called . . . Lou Stillman approached. I don't know if he produced one of his in finitesimal spittles. Let us say he cleared his throat. 'Everybody is not here,' he said." Such stories have...
Jean-Louis Scherrer staged his fashion rendition of the hunters and the hunted to the sound of baying hounds and music from the film Barry Lyndon. His Loden capes and hunting jackets gave way to evening gowns ornamented with leopard-paw clasps and, finally, to chiffon sheaths in panther prints...
...last year-60% of it in New York City. Her biggest hit has been the Fragments Bag, which holds seven basic separates-six of Qiana jersey-in a range of compatible colors that can be combined to make about 100 different outfits. Also in the bag: a see-through chiffon blouson top and, egad, a silver necklace with a cylinder that holds a toothbrush. From its Christmas catalogue, Lord & Taylor alone sold 57 bags at $475 a throw...