Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...color illustrations, including the Halston-clad model on the cover and the four pages accompanying the story, were researched by Mary Themo, a longtime observer of the fashion world, and photographed by TIME'S Eddie Adams, a veteran of many political and combat assignments, who found the chance to work in and around the fashion battlefields of Seventh Avenue a welcome change. The reporting for the story was begun weeks ago by New York Correspondent Eileen Shields. She confesses to having once been "a slave of fashion," but uncomfortable about her bondage at times-"especially," she says, "during...
Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison agrees. She too interviewed many fashion designers for the story-on one occasion while wearing blue jeans and a sweater. Bad form? Evidently not. "At one point, I asked a designer if he could cite a perfect example of current American style. He answered, 'You are, darling...
...story was written by Senior Writer Michael Demarest and edited by Leon Jaroff. Demarest's experience with fashion predates the American look and the miniskirt. In fact, it goes back to his boyhood days in London when his mother, he says, "would occasionally drag me to fittings at her dressmaker's." In Demarest's recollection, "these were marvelous occasions. I knew nothing about fashion and cared less, but the vision of half-clad ladies gliding mysteriously to and fro was something to treasure during the long months of all-male boarding schools...
...high noon, high season and hurly-burly last week on that nondescript stretch of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue that is the fount of American fashion. In scores of clangorous...
...chic, and what they got was an exceedingly lopsided split. Cartier Ltd. in London maintained close ties with Paris' Cartier S.A., which clung to classic haute joaillerie with designs rooted in the 19th century. Cartier Inc. in New York tried to be more responsive to changes in fashion. One resuit: some world-traveling Cartier customers came to regard the New York store as shamefully declasse. Says Socialite Betsy Pickering: "There is no comparison between it and the Paris store. In the past decade it [the New York house] has not been a quality store-one never went there. They...