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...color illustrations, including the Halston-clad model on the cover and the four pages accompanying the story, were researched by Mary Themo, a longtime observer of the fashion world, and photographed by TIME'S Eddie Adams, a veteran of many political and combat assignments, who found the chance to work in and around the fashion battlefields of Seventh Avenue a welcome change. The reporting for the story was begun weeks ago by New York Correspondent Eileen Shields. She confesses to having once been "a slave of fashion," but uncomfortable about her bondage at times-"especially," she says, "during...
...Halston, once Bergdorf Goodman's millinery designer, got his Bloomingdale's shop in 1969 and was there exclusively until about three years ago. Murphy persuaded Yves Saint Laurent to make clothes in the U.S., and Bloomingdale's opened a Saint Laurent shop before its competitors; it grosses about $ 1 million a year. In Ralph Lauren, Bloomies developed a designer from scratch. When Lauren was an unknown salesman of his own tie designs, Traub and Murphy encouraged him to do more ties, then men's suits and shoes, then women's blouses, skirts, pants and sleepwear. His boutiques now sell...
...those prices, scarcely a ticket holder failed to appear at last week's Manhattan benefit for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The guest of honor of the evening, which starred Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, was First Lady Betty Ford in a flowing purple Halston gown. She was escorted by Woody Allen in tux and sneakers ("I think those black shoes they have with tuxedos are terrible"). But the evening's most eye-opening costume belonged to Nureyev, who danced his role clad only in a solid gold mesh dancer's belt. After his performance, the very...
...Margaux is a photographer's ideal, and despite the trend to diversity, hers is the face of a generation, as recognizable and memorable as Lisa Fonssagrives and Jean Shrimpton. When Margaux has her hair wet and slicked back, Photographer Francesco Scavullo thinks she looks Etruscan. Says Designer Halston: "She has all the components to become a modern young superstar-openness, infectiousness, beauty and the ambition to follow through...
...When Halston presented his fall collection in Manhattan last week, one model looked as if she dreamed she was at Fort Knox. Clad in long green Ultrasuede evening culottes and a creamy silk shirt open to the waist, she wore for toppers a bra of solid gold mesh. The bra was designed by Italy's Elsa Peretti, who explained: "It is worn as a jewel, it has a good feeling on the body and it is amusing. You can put it in a little bag and take it with you anywhere." For about $4,000, you can take...