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...apres-gala orgy, consecrated by custom, begins. Sloshing up the stairs, one of the producers of the event mutters to a crepe-dressed mannequin: "We're running out of champagne, for God's sake, where'd it all go to?" Blake, who has had just about all of the Pudding's hospitality he can hold, leaves, with a few companions. The kids are still waiting on the sidewalk across from the Pudding. It's 1 a.m. and a policeman is telling them to move on, go home, but they scatter, regroup and wait huddled in the circle of the streetlight...
...Kung Fu, appears as the champion racer Frankenstein. Various parts of his body have been smashed, burned or discarded during his racing career, and he now appears in a black mask and zippered leather suit, looking like a cross between a rock star and a fetishist mannequin. His main competition is a character from Chicago (well played by Sylvester Stallone) who gets himself up like a 1950s hood and keeps his girl friend in her place with lines like "People may think you're cute, but to me you're just one baked potato...
...grande dame of French couture; in Paris. Vionnet, as she was simply known, began her trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher in the modern...
...Mannequin Model...
...first mannequin to be modeled after "the boss's wife" was not modeled after the wife of the president of Sakowitz [Jan. 14]. I, the wife of the former president of Saks Fifth Avenue, Adam L. Gimbel, was the model. The mannequin was commissioned by Henry Callahan, vice president and corporate display director of Saks Fifth Avenue. It was made in 1956 for Saks Fifth Avenue, not for Gimbel Bros...