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The American salesmen were Charles Bear, managing director of TIME-LIFE International, Stevens DeClerque, TLI advertising director, and Ralph Davidson, European advertising director for TLI. Their audience consisted of the president and top officials of Vneshtorgreklama, the Soviets' sole export advertising agency, and executives of more than 30 foreign...
In fact, furriers are using everything short of their own hides - Russian fitch, French rabbit, Algerian sand rat, Polish pony, Australian kangaroo and Wyoming buffalo. And they are handling the animal skins like fabric, tailoring them into haute couture shapes, cutting them into culottes, evening gowns and leggings. Taking even...
At the other end of the spectrum is Manhattan's Georges Kaplan, whose co-owner and designer, Jacques Kap lan, has long been one of society's favorite purveyors of both conventional and novel furs. For mothers and daughters, he offers matching Mondrian-dyed rabbit dressed with red...
For more formal wear, he has a backless calfskin evening dress stenciled to look like giraffe, a floor-length, tent-shaped Mongolian lamb coat that, with peaked hood attached, exposes only the eyes, and a white broadtail wedding dress with a ten-foot train. His showstopper is a black broadtail...
Working with natural essences or synthetic replacements, industrial perfumers have also solved the problem of charcoal briquettes that don't smell like hickory and finished furs that don't smell like mink. Without help, shoes nowadays smell more like adhesives, rubber soles and dye than leather; many manufacturers...