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...hour. The move to foreign goods has been accelerated by the renewed popularity of private-label merchandise. Retailers like New York City's Lord & Taylor and Houston's Sakowitz have become disenchanted with designer products because the widely available garments have lost much of their exclusivity. Halston's name, for example, now appears on J.C. Penney's dresses. Even worse, designer clothes frequently turn up in discount and off-price stores that are multiplying like fried-chicken outlets. By promoting their own label, retailers can guarantee exclusivity as well as protect their profit margins. Since...
...really Vogue on video," says Charney, who appears to be hankering after a more general readership-or, perhaps, viewership. For a yearly subscription fee of $1,500, clients-mostly retailers and cosmetic companies-get the lowdown on Halston and hear all about hair care. Charney is negotiating with CBS Cable to carry an even slicker, consumer-oriented spinoff. "When we started," Charney says, "there wasn't even Betamax. There weren't any satellites. Now everything is coming together. Video is the place where TV, newspapers and books and photography and movies really meet." Charney...
Start with the money. One hundred dollars will buy you one sleeve of a Halston ultrasuede jacket, dinner for two at a Manhattan restaurant or tickets to three conventional Broadway shows. It will also get you into the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, whose first preview performances last week helped launch the new Broadway season. In terms of time and money spent, this sprawling, tumultuous, 8½-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1839 novel is the theatrical bargain of the decade. One off-Broadway musical ?five lively actors, 70 easy minutes, the audience seated...
Calvin, Brooke, Andy and Halston were there. So too were some inveterate partygoers who travel under both their names: Christopher Reeve and Jack Nicholson, for example. But in the crush of the reopening of Manhattan's Studio 54, at least as many other notable nighttime nabobs were left out in the rain. Conspicuous by their presence inside, were former Owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. All told, 10,000 invitations went out for a club that legally accommodates only 1,800. "It was so crowded," said Designer Klein after his twirl on the dance floor with Brooke, "that absolutely...
...stores for Jimmy Carter's cardigans or Lyndon Johnson's baggy pants. On the other hand, Jack Kennedy's two-button suits (whose looser lines he adopted to disguise the back brace he often had to wear) set a fashion for two decades. Jackie's Halston-designed pillbox hats were as common as canapes at cocktail parties of the '60s. If the Reagan look does not incite the masses to clothe themselves likewise, it promises both verve and dignity in the White House. -ByMichaelDemarest. Reported by Douglas Brew/Los Angeles and Georgia Harbison/New York