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After a change of director and two postponed openings, other edgy words surfaced-this time between first-time Producer Jerry Sherlock, an ex-fabric broker from Seventh Avenue, Playwright Edward Albee and Star Donald Sutherland, who was making his first stage appearance in 17 years. Sherlock almost ran short on his $700,000 budget, and the day before the opening Sutherland found that his paycheck had bounced, an error that has since been rectified. Says Albee: "One thing about Sherlock, he may not know anything about producing for the theater, but he certainly knows how to cut corners...
...Despos and his business are good. Six years ago he started selling custom-tailored men's suits for $300 to $600. Now some time-pressed customers order clothes over the phone, confident that he knows their fit and taste so well that he can pick out a fabric and get started on the garment before they need to come in for a fitting. But his ambitions go far beyond that. "I would like to get into clothing manufacturing on a limited scale," he says. He believes that he could profitably sell the same woman's skirt that goes...
...drivers claim other advantages. Insists Jane Flint, a Washington advertising researcher who actually grew up in Detroit without ever learning to back or brake: "I feel I have more freedom than most of my friends, forever hopping into the car with a fabric swatch in their hands, driving the kids to the dentist when they could just as well have walked, driving back to the market to buy some forgotten item, picking up the kids from the dentist, back downtown again-this goes on all day long." Fortunately, says Flint, her children "don't have arcane tastes...
...fashions more commonplace than chic. Now Louis Vuitton, the French maker of luxury luggage, has concluded that many self-respecting snobs may prefer more subtlety. This fall Vuitton will introduce a new line of trunks and suitcases that do not have its famous LV initials sprinkled across the covering fabric...
Vuitton's familiar trademark of crossed golden initials intermingled in a floral pattern dates back to 1896. Georges Vuitton, son of the firm's founder, created the design to make the bags difficult for counterfeiters to copy. Over the years, the distinctive canvas fabric became a favorite of the rich and renowned, including Charles Lindbergh, Rose Kennedy and Lauren Bacall. Marlene Dietrich once filled an entire limousine with 23 Vuitton cases...