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...raised in Chanel suits picked out by her mother, and she now goes dining and dancing in pants-shaggy fur ones for the gaucho look at a party given by Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, fringed satin ones for the Indian look at a Four Seasons reception for Yves Saint Laurent. Post-Deb Cathy Macauley, 21, shows up in Manhattan for the superformal opening of the Metropolitan Opera season wearing black culottes, an extravagantly embroidered red vest and a leash borrowed from her cat as a necklace. "I was going to go barefoot," says Cathy, "but I guess that...
Much of the impetus comes from the exotic costumes dreamed up by youth, and the watchword is "Do your own thing." The situation has traditional designers up tight. Old standard setters, like Balenciaga, have retired. Others, like Saint Laurent, reach for youth by focusing increasingly on less expensive ready-to-wear clothes. At 46, fatigued by the efforts that have kept him far ahead of other designers, Rudi Gernreich last week announced that he was taking a year off in order to refresh himself. Says Gernreich, who championed the new attitude all along: "I feel that a woman must...
...perfumery, the star of the after-hours bash at Bonwit Teller's department store in Manhattan was Lauren Bacall, who held court with her left leg propped on a dainty gilt chair. She had torn a cartilage at another party honoring still another designing guru, Yves Saint Laurent. "I thought I was Margot Fonteyn on the dance floor and promptly slipped," said Lauren. "And now as I go spreading joy through New York, I'm paying for it every step...
Call the Police. Given a choice between Beautiful People and showing his clothes, Saint Laurent picked people, decided to keep the 8,000 imported garments off the racks and out of sight for the opening. Nobody minded. For at the age of 32, Saint Laurent is a celebrity's celebrity. Tapped eleven years ago to inherit the mantle of Dior, he scored such a smash hit with his first collection, featuring his trapeze line, that crowds gathered outside the Dior headquarters on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, crying "Au balcon!" until he emerged on the balcony to wave. Branching...
...what has given Saint Laurent his large following is his decision to be the first of Paris' great designers to reach for the mass audience. With the opening of Laurent's Rive Gauche boutique in Paris two years ago, suddenly the subtle signature of haute couture was within the range of everyone. By the end of this year, he hopes to have 18 boutiques throughout Europe, plus ten in the U.S. by the fall of 1969. "Whether the creation is for haute couture or ready-to-wear is not important," he now says. "The act of creation...