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...close friend retells a story Biggs offered when he spoke before the Guild of Organists recently in New York City. There had been a major controversy over whether to install a real or "fake" (electric) organ in Carnegie Hall. Biggs had been a militant opponent of those who sought to "cheapen" the hall with the modern instrument. He told a tale to illustrate the points of his argument...
...more a frame of mind than a fashion, a zip code rather than a style. Yet the new look from California-it might be called the Pacific Overture-is swiveling eyes and stoking department-store sales from coast to coast. So far this year, the young California Contemporary Fashion Guild, representing 32 West Coast designers, has rung up about $40 million in sales; in 1976 the group grossed $100 million...
...guild's members make the point that they have greater freedom-and mutual trust-than they could find on Seventh Avenue. "There's no backstabbing here," says Dennis Goldsmith, 31, a Jonathan Logan alumnus who started his highly successful Ma Chemise in Los Angeles only some 18 months ago. C.C.F.G. President Donald Cooper, 38, a native New Yorker and an owner of D.B.A. by Theodore, claims: "The goal of the guild is total mesmerization. We wanted people to jump up and down -and they...
...guild's top jumper is Harriet Selwyn, 46, a tall, vivacious New Yorker who went West five years ago, and calls California "the center of creativity." Her company, Fragments, grossed more than $1 million last year-60% of it in New York City. Her biggest hit has been the Fragments Bag, which holds seven basic separates-six of Qiana jersey-in a range of compatible colors that can be combined to make about 100 different outfits. Also in the bag: a see-through chiffon blouson top and, egad, a silver necklace with a cylinder that holds a toothbrush. From...
...Hero. Typical of the designers whom the guild likes to discover and promote is Georgia Michaud, 27. Michaud's designs, many using hand-dyed hospital gauze, are simple and versatile: for example, a pimento handkerchief-style dress that can go to the beach in the morning and the disco at night. Linda Somers, 33, works in chamois and deerskin. Her clothes are expensive: her black deerskin tiered skirt costs $230, her chamois bathing suit $50 and chamois beach cover...