Word: laurents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look yielded to slim, trim, body-conscious clothes. Hubert de Givenchy came out with a shape that Women's Wear Daily was quick to label "the TT-or Tight Torso." Pierre Cardin's bottom-cupping skirts cling as tightly as the skin on a peach. Yves Saint Laurent, couture's most influential designer, has also rediscovered the slim look, with cool, understated dresses and near severe tailored pants and jackets. At Dior, Marc Bohan showed below-the-knee skirts topped by waist-length confections he calls "waiter's jackets" -and most women doubtless will have...
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...
...Cooper, a percussionist, is removed from the display case, its ownership is contested by a woman dressed in a Saint Laurent original who loudly protests Elton's locust-like purchasing. "I saw that yesterday and I said I was actively interested," she says, scowling at Elton. But with $7,000 worth of merchandise on the block, the men of Cartier ignore her protest. "Being interested," smiles Elton as he signs a check, "is not the same as buying...
Assistant State Attorney Louis St. Laurent has begun probing alleged security violations by 36 interlocking development and securities sales companies that did business in the Fort Myers area. By his estimate, investors in Lee County alone were bilked of $50 million. The loss by noteholders throughout the U.S. could reach $350 million. Even that sum could be dwarfed by the losses suffered by people who bought lots. In many cases, developers sold lots for about ten times the $200 to $400 they had paid for them in new "developments" that could not be built because they are partially under water...
...world who John considers have perfect taste," says Fairchild Editor Michael Coady. "You'll probably find them in W." Indeed, W watchers note that some names and faces appear with uncommon frequency: "Babe" Paley (wife of CBS Chairman William), the Philippe Rothschilds, the Kissingers, Yves Saint Laurent and Jackie O., who has decorated W's cover six times...