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Still, after reflecting on Saint Laurent's New New Look, some U.S. designers were saying at week's end that actually, it was hopelessly out of date for Americans. "The collection has no relationship to what's happening to women today," observed Ralph Lauren. Halston declared that "the costume party is over for America." Others, like Clovis Ruffin, loved it. "It reminds me of the grand old days of Paris." he said. Giorgio Sant' Angelo called it "beautiful," adding, "but to me it looks like a very old revolution...
...display in everything from evening gowns to T shirts. Neck and shoulder in popularity this season are strapless "maillot" (one-piece) bathing suits, sundresses and jumpsuits. Women cannot buy the styles fast enough. Manhattan's Henri Bendel already has its daytime strapless line on second and third reorder. Halston has sold 380 strapless sarongs (price range: $600 to $1,000). Calvin Klein's Lycra maillot is the coolest hot-seller in his swimsuit collection...
Body Consciousness. The strapless look got broad exposure at the recent Academy Awards presentations when Elizabeth Taylor, Marlo Thomas and Marisa Berenson shouldered their part of the show in Halston sarongs. Audrey Hepburn sailed through her first Hollywood appearance in eight years in a strapless sheath by Givenchy...
...snuggled in a tuxedoed gentleman's arms as they float on a tire-raft on some cool body of water in the dusk. Both media peddle the same image--Babe, at once the child and the temptress, the pampered, beautiful, single woman who's rich enough to get her Halston...
Following the herd instinct, several stars, including Taylor, Mario Thomas and Marisa Berenson, ordered their gowns from Halston. The popular mode was the strapless wisp of chiffon skirt slit to the waist, that seemed about to fly off or shiver to the floor. Margaux Hemingway, looking like a jumbo stick of red-and-white peppermint candy, stumbled fetchingly over the names she read aloud; Elliott Gould, aware that practically every man present was betting on the results of the night's basketball game, produced the most popular aside of the night by muttering, when his partner intoned the ritualistic...