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Some seniors writing theses would give their left arms to be able to flip through issue after issue of Vogue magazine in search of fashions by Christian Dior, but James H. Lubowitz would probably have already beaten them to the magazine stacks--and he was doing research for his thesis. Most undergraduate don't circle the globe for credit, but Janet W. Rich and Michael P. Adams wound up doing their thesis research in Australia and Peru respectively. The variety of senior theses is always astounding--here is a lively sampling of some of this year's crop that were...
...topic for the History and Literature Department, then haute couture seemed like an equally unlikely topic for the Fine Arts Department. But James H. Lubowitz says he "made the assumption that fashion has aesthetic value and can be considered art," and then proceeded to analyze the aesthetics of Christian Dior in the 1950s...
...Christian Dior advertisement showed a wedding scene, and the coyly phrased caption read, "Just a legendary private affair." The picture, part of a $2.5 million advertising campaign, showed real-life celebrities Gene Shalit, 51, Ruth Gordon, 87, and Shari Belafonte, 29, along with Model Barbara Reynolds, who looks an awful lot like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Unamused, Onassis filed court papers charging that the advertisement had violated her privacy and exploited her image commercially. New York Justice Edward Greenfield last week agreed and barred Reynolds from appearing in any advertisements masquerading as Jackie O. Quoting no less an authority than Shakespeare...
...earliest clothes in the show carry the Christian Dior label. Saint Laurent was 18 when the Master of the New Look hired him as an assistant. The young man had been interested since childhood in theatrical costume and set design and was delighted to be apprenticed to Dior. Four years later, when Dior died suddenly of a heart attack, Saint Laurent was chosen by Textile Magnate Marcel Boussac, who owned the couture house, to succeed him. In 1958 he produced a brilliant debut collection that introduced an A-line dress called the trapeze. It was an instantaneous success. The French...
...strands that run through his daytime wear, the dominant one is meticulous tailoring. An outfit in loden green wool tweed, made for the Dior label, is a marvel of classic grace achieved through proportion and soft pleating. Pants, which Saint Laurent thinks may be his biggest contribution to fashion, have clear, economical lines, never exaggerated, never mannish. Good tailoring is behind what is truly his greatest influence on clothing, the huge (172 outlets) international string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples...