Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneviève arrived on the arm of Darryl F. Zanuck, 66, who has promoted the careers of such stars as Bella Darvi, Juliette Greco and Irina Demick. And Zanuck has already made Geneviève something of a star. He directed the 23-minute short, The World of Fashion, that preceded Flea on the program, and Geneviève was the film's only performer. That may not be much of a step up the movie ladder but with Darryl's help, who knows...
...Fashion this fall seems to be the work of the Madwoman of Chaillot. Plus elements of a rummage sale, a fancy-dress party, and that haphazard art form based on "found objects...
Relative newcomers are providing the best basics these days and usually at medium prices ranging from $75 to $300. Luba Marks, 45, a former dancer (first with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Paris, later in Broadway musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun), went into the fashion business with her husband nine years ago. In 1965, she showed a collection of pants, and they have been her hallmark ever since. Though Luba, who won a Coty Award for her designs last month, does not pretend that she invented pants, no designer has worked with them more skillfully...
Gernreich observes: "It is the designers of accessories who are now ascendant." One case in point is Adolfo, 35. Long exclusively a high-fashion milliner, he has lately added a line of interchangeable boutique clothes, which he sells to the likes of Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Jacqueline Kennedy and Mrs. William Paley. They take his "bits and pieces"-harem pants, long midi coats, shirts, vests and skirts-and combine them into what Adolfo calls "the anti-Establishment way of dressing for the Establishment...
...trend means the end of the "investment dress," which costs so much that a woman feels she has to wear it repeatedly to justify the outlay. To TV Actress Kathryn Leigh Scott, 23, it means making her own clothes and rummaging through thrift shops for old materials and accessories. Fashion Writer Caterine Milinaire, 25, one of Manhattan's most creative dressers, is also a scavenger; her costume for a recent charity ball consisted of an old, loose-fitting Israeli dress that she picked up in London. "I guess I looked funny to a lot of people," she says...