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When Carla Francis had finished dressing for a Dallas dinner party, her lawyer husband James took one look at her laced-up Merry Widow costume and expostulated, "Mercy! Are you going out that way?" "It does call attention," agreed Carla. "But Yves Saint Laurent says...
...January. One problem they face is that much of Stevens' output is unfinished cloth sold to other manufacturers, and the company's own consumer products sell under a bewildering variety of private labels and brand names, including Utica blankets and Gulistan carpets. Some, like Yves Saint Laurent sheets, bear designer names. Nonetheless, ACTWU is printing up thousands of wallet-sized cards listing labels, and plans to take ads in local papers to persuade housewives to boycott Stevens...
...trains, panels, hoods, furbelows and twiddlybits, the great fashion houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with something new twice a year, though that is what we are demanding." What Paris offered last week was manic vacillation...
YVES SAINT LAURENT came on with a romantic version of his tough-chic man-tailored pantsuits, followed by a new rendering of his 1976 peasant-Gypsy-Spanish-Russian look. This time he used delicate Indian prints, floral patterns and filmy mousselines-inspired, it was said, by Renoir (who was not exactly inspired by peasants). Y.S.L. remained the superstar...
...child enters with a very old man. He is wearing wrapping paper, she the Yves St. Laurent "new Look...