Word: crepe
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...guilty and crepe-yellow months...
Among Alexander's similarly sized harvest, the buyers are especially proud of a St. Laurent daytime dress of cream-beige crepe with a subdued use of beads. It is, says one, "the Ford of our collection"-something everyone will want. Also interesting: a Patou white worsted dress that is close to the body, with a flared skirt and four rows of horizontal stitching; it is considered the best trend indicator. "It's the princess line all over again," says a buyer. Like Ohrbach's, Alexander's was active in the Italian mar ket too. It will...
...sunny, transparent Quartet in D for Flute and Strings to the late Irving Fine's romantic and unsettling Fantasia for String Trio (1957). Most fetching of the four contemporary works is Elliott Carter's Woodwind Quintet, with its light melodic fragments breezily tossed and tangled like crepe-paper streamers...
...combination of hard and soft surprises. Hard (far-out) surprises in the March issue, out next week, include Ferrari-inspired shoes that are red, black, green and yellow, and have wheels and a red "2" painted on their sides. Also hard: a "prancesuit" made up of a melon crepe tunic and thigh-tight knee pants with blue crystal trim and blue shoes to match. The soft(expectable) surprise comes in the form of Paris spring fashions, from Dior's white hunting jacket to St. Laurent's daytime version of "le smoking...
...such scruples for Christina Paolozzi Bellin, who made a great Doll Tearsheet in black and white crepe with a diaphanous midriff designed by John Kloss. She kept wishing she were nuder. "You can't even tell I'm naked," wailed the girl who made her fame by being scratched from the Social Register four years ago for posing nude from the waist up in Harper's Bazaar. And how did Christina feel about representing Shakespeare's most notorious trollop? "It's fun to play a character you'd be least likely...