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...showmanship, not to say showboatery. Baryshnikov is a dancer of equal authority but far different style. He is short, and his slightly chunky body seems to belong to a superb athlete as well as an artist. He floated Makarova overhead as though she had no more substance than a chiffon gown. His phenomenal double turns in air and grands jetês were done with a breathtaking ease that did not call attention to itself. Yet he conveyed an almost electric impression of great power and speed, held in check by inner devotion to music and the needs...
Although the Chanel styles never stray far from Founder Coco's ideal of refinement, this season's collection caused controversy. Designed by Disciples Jean Cazaubon and Yvonne Dudel, the line ran to vaporous chiffon gowns, gored skirts, lingerie-style blouses. But instead of the calf-length skirt that other couturiers adopted, Coco's designers raised the hemline to just below the knee. In the eyes of Syndicated Critic Eugenia Sheppard, that "broke the charm of those once magic proportions...
...said Trieia Nixon Cox at the Westhampton Beach, N.Y., wedding of her sister-in-law Mary Ann Livingston Delafield Cox (daughter of the Socially Registered Howard Coxes) and Brinkley Stimson Thorne, who like his bride is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture. Trieia was in pink chiffon and Husband Ed wore a dark gray pin-stripe suit, but many of the guests came in jeans or granny dresses. Mazie started out in her great-aunt's ivory satin wedding gown and ended up hi a bathing suit and Indian shirt. For the ceremony itself, the guests were...
Arbus's photographs are extremely horrifying and disturbing in their precise attention to detail and the use of strobe flash to delineate textures. Images of a drooling, grimacing baby singe themselves into your retina. A lady's face--swathed in layers of chiffon scarves, wrapped by a gauze turban and netted veil, huge drops of shiny pearls hanging from her ears, and a fluffy fur stole across her chest--peers out over a double chin somehow eerily disembodied...
...stripe shirts with big butterfly bow ties; and two-tone spectator shoes, all for both sexes. Daytime wear for women relies on little white pleated skirts ending just above the knee, and small cloche hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly...