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...artsy techniques, like the slow motion in Goodbye Columbus as Ali bounds toward the river for a swim one balmy evening. Altogether, Hiller impressed me as the most intelligent person around. He strolled up and down the ice in his huge grey-green parka, looking out from the fur with deep brown monkey-wise eyes in a face that does not look so much lined or aged as well-used...
...Harlech, David Ormsby Gore, 51, former ambassador to the U.S. and once a sometime-companion of Jacqueline Onassis. They met in London, where she is an editor of Vogue. Before that, she designed sweaters and scooted through Manhattan traffic on a motorbike, decked out in jaguar coat and matching fur helmet. According to her father, Ralph Colin, a prominent New York lawyer and patron of the arts, the wedding will be held in December...
...mink is a mink," he says with reverence, "and a sable is a sable, and I will not tear them, trim them or tuck them." Nonetheless, Partos has rimmed a black Alaskan seal cape with flowers made of 40 different ersatz shades of mink. Revillon Furs' designer Fernando Sanchez likes a long-haired mink, worn with the fur inside, that presents a hairless-though embossed-exterior...
Five-Finger Exercise. It was Madame Potok, grande dame at Maximilian Furs, who first treated fur like a fabric; an old-style mink coat weighed twelve pounds before she scissored away at waists and armholes, sleeves and bulky seams and reduced the total to a mere four pounds. This year's collection moves Madame Potok to grandiloquence. "For the girl who forgot her gloves," she has a broadtail coat whose sleeves drip ermine over naked hands ($7,800); "for unheated castles," there is a black mink, floor-length caftan with a gold-beaded bib front...
...furs are so high-priced. Some of them (wolf, mole, bull and hamster) cost well under $700, several (rabbit and fox paws), less than $300. The customer will obviously be paying more for the labor than for the fur. For, as Kaplan says of the new furs, "We have plucked them, unplucked them, sheared them, dyed them, cut them out, stenciled them and printed them. In other words, a little bit of God, and much...