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...months ahead. But no matter how frantic or busy, each somehow found time to leaf through the fashion magazines and scan the women's pages of the daily papers in search of one thing: where is that new coat, new suit, new dress or ball gown...
From Kooky to Effortless. Americans do still, of course, buy European haute couture. Their purchases account for 40% of the trade in the Paris couture houses. Since an original Balenciaga ball gown can cost $12,000, or a Chanel suit $2,200, pacesetters such as Mrs. William Paley and Jackie Kennedy also snap up the "line-for-line" copies available in the U.S. Manhattan Socialite Mrs. John Converse happily admits, "I love Ohrbach copies." She also likes American designers like Bill Blass and Mainbocher. Nowadays, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Loel Guinness and Mrs. Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt shop on both...
...make his point, reaped a whirlwind of publicity in 1964 with his topless bathing suits. He only sold 3,000, but everyone has paid attention to him ever since, last year for his "cutout" fashions, this year for his daring halter-necked black jersey dinner gown and his suit tailored like a surgeon's apron...
Soprano Marsh was scheduled to sing again, but she developed tonsillitis. When the malady lingered on, a hasty call went out to Veronica Tyler. Arriving from New York a bare hour ahead of time with her yellow gown over her arm, Tyler swept onstage with complete aplomb and velvet voice to repeat two of the arias she had sung in her previous appearance with the orchestra. "These young singers and musicians are great-no pretensions, natural, enthusiastic, no pettiness," marveled Orchestra Manager Thomas Perry. Shrugged Baltimore-born Tyler: "I've learned to relax, and I love to sing...
...instances where Poussin painted a living person, for portraiture was then considered a lowly form, was his self-portrait of 1650. With an intimation of the coming romantic age, he cloaks himself in an academic gown, accouters himself with a book, and poses against pictures whose gilt edges focus attention especially on his eyes. It is clearly the portrait of the artist as rational philosopher, saying with Cartesian clarity: I perceive, therefore I paint...