Word: luba
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...embodies meanings that are entirely based on gesture and posture. Art Historian Robert Thompson, in showing these works drawn from the superb African collection owned by Katherine White in Los Angeles, demonstrates the canons of African motion across the diversity of regional cultures: Dan and Dogon, Yoruba and Ogoni, Luba and Ashanti, Benin and Ejagham...
...hundred metal teeth. To ensure greater visibility, Klein styles feature side closings, and those that do not ride low on the hips lace like a corset above the waist. Skirt Designer Stella Sloat shows a few wraparound midis ("for a little exposure while walking"); otherwise, like Designer Luba, she sticks to buttons down the front or just plain slashes at the center or sides...
...visit to Rubaga Cathedral was the purest Latin he had ever heard.) Until recently, older converts and African priests had resisted such innovations as Mass in the vernacular, native songs, instruments and dances, looking on them as part of their rejected past. Experimental native works like the famous Missa Luba were first encouraged by white missionaries. Now, however, the black clergy has taken the lead in Africanizing Catholic ritual. Masses all across the continent are beginning to employ old dance forms and chants. In Zambia, even the tribal lamentations at the bedside of the dying are being reintroduced. Vernacular masses...
Relative newcomers are providing the best basics these days and usually at medium prices ranging from $75 to $300. Luba Marks, 45, a former dancer (first with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Paris, later in Broadway musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun), went into the fashion business with her husband nine years ago. In 1965, she showed a collection of pants, and they have been her hallmark ever since. Though Luba, who won a Coty Award for her designs last month, does not pretend that she invented pants, no designer has worked with them more skillfully...
...midcalf. Hechter and Delahaye, who sell to leading department stores the world over, including Bonwit Teller and Neiman Marcus, are receiving orders for them by the thousands. In the U.S., three fast-rising young ready-to-wear designers-Coty Award Winner Dominic of Matty Talmack, plus Chester Weinberg and Luba of Elite-are suggesting the "midi dress," with hem 4 in. below the knee. And in London, where the miniskirt was invented, such young mod newcomers as Ossie Clarke and Roland Klein are including mid-calf lengths in their fall lines. Says Clarke: "This summer will be one last fling...