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...attraction is the merchandise?thousands upon thousands of items chosen in part for high style and displayed with show business flair. Shoppers swarm about high-fashion boutiques, fondling designs by Anne Klein and Yves Saint Laurent. They taste fruitcake samples in the lavishly stocked Delicacies Shop, which among its 7,000 items has 146 varieties of bread and 300 kinds of cheese. Coos Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis' sister: "It's the obvious place to go for everything. Oh gosh, it's the most fantastic and exhausting store in the world...
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...
...jumpsuit fad began in Paris and was brought to the U.S. by models who had attended last fall's fashion shows. The first Paris designer to bring back a high-fashion jumpsuit was Yves Saint Laurent, whose collection for fall included jumps in classic poplin ($205), a black acrylic with drawstring waist ($375) and a turtleneck number ($355). A nationwide bestseller is Victor Joris' self-belted gabardine suit with pleated pants ($110); in all, some 600 stores have ordered 38,000 Joris jumps. One of the most popular numbers, though, is the inexpensive Esso suit, a loose overall...
Other trendy accessories range from plumbers' satchels from Denmark ($26) to Saint Laurent's scrapes...
Morocco Inspired. Yves Saint Laurent celebrated détente with a Russian look: three-quarter-length suede coats bordered in mink, worn over a sum velvet skirt and a printed cossack blouse in crepe de Chine, all topped by a huge matching mink toque. Another Y.S.L. standout was a silk poplin pelisse lined and trimmed in fisher, over a tweed suit with a tweedy patterned crepe de Chine blouse. For evening he had many floating mousselines, including several djellabas that were probably inspired by Saint Laurent's trips to Morocco, where he has a house...