Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Design at the Metropolitan Museum, and the former Vogue editor in chief was putting last-minute touches on more than 100 refurbished but original costumes from the movies. Pausing by the white organza gown worn by Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh when Scarlett O'Hara bailed out Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, and marveled at the exotic headpiece that disguised Greta Garbo in Mata Hari. When she got to the cane Mae West leaned on in films...
...that is Baby Watson." She turned and pointed to a huge black and white photograph of a baby sitting on a shiny floor in a white dress. Baby Watson, it seems, was born last year in Vermont. He is now ten months old and will always be ten months old. The sales girl pointed to a wooden sign lying on a countertop, the name "Baby Watson" carved into its grain...
Feiffer: My interest in presidents has been in terms of style and approach. We don't think of a Dulles or an Acheson period. But the shape the country took changed like the style of dress between Kennedy and Eisenhower...
...misgivings. At a recent campaign appearance, a sartorially conscious Teamsters official asked: "If you are elected Governor, will you wear stockings?" Replied Ella: "I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings." She plans to change her political style no more than her casual dress. "It's important for me to continue to stop in cafes, to keep my curbside office that allows me to walk down the street and do business." In becoming the highest-ranking woman in U.S. politics, she has been inescapably catapulted nationally into the center ring, and will continue to enjoy...
Bill, 65, is having his first full dress retrospective in the U.S., organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. The Albright-Knox is the only museum in America to have systematically collected his work; other institutions, like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, have all but ignored this superb but very un-American stylistic puritan. The show is large-44 sculptures, 120 paintings and graphics-and it goes to the Los Angeles County Museum on Dec. 17, finishing in San Francisco next April. What is more, it is a revelation...