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...those who cannot kick the coat habit, fashion designers are now serving up fun furs instead of practical parkas. Some are strictly fluff and nonsense, like Revillon of Saks Fifth Avenue's $5,550 chinchilla jacket with matching boots. Others are almost tough enough to tumble in, like Walt Stiel's $375 mustang, stenciled to look like giraffe. Still others have prices that are actually fun, like McGregor's $50 mock crocodile jacket...
...galleries sit hamburgers the size of Volkswagens. Here is a comfy zebra-striped chair draped with a leopard coat marked by the gallery PLEASE DON'T SIT. And right there behind the gallerygoer is a plaster facsimile of a real person looking like a petrified floorwalker. Coke bottles protrude from the canvas; TV sets roar from the painted surface; neon lights glow like theater marquees. A plethora of real objects has been swept into art, and art has walked right out of the frame into the living room...
Magazines, Galanos feels, are running wild with accessories. "When Vogue shows chandelier earrings with a sports coat, which is what they are doing most of the time, rules are being broken-without a sense of beauty-all for the sake of the picture. But a reaction is beginning to set in. Magazines are getting letters from people saying they are tired of seeing models undressed and sitting on Johns...
...with John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, the First Lady made a brief tour of Harvard's newest buildings and finally perched on top of Williams James for a bird's eye view of the city's landmarks. Scarcely anyone recognized the lady in a red coat and pink dress surrounded by a bevy of secret service...
...house lights dim. In the balcony, a man warily eyes the ushers, then slips his hand beneath his folded over coat and flips a tiny switch protruding from a briefcase balanced on his knees...