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Couturier Yves Saint Laurent ordered a gold plated copper cast made of Model Veruschka's bosom, slipped it over a mannequin, and sent her down the runway; it was one way to top off a skirt. Courreges had a model roar up to the footlights in a minicar with a Plexiglas dome, and presented another wearing pingpong balls pasted on her oversized sunglasses. Cecil Beaton sketched. Lauren Bacall applauded. Katharine Hepburn hid out from photographers. Coco Chanel curled up on the salon stairway while her collection was shown and coolly surveyed the crush below. But then Chanel has been...
Klee-Like Fabrics. For decolletage, Courreges stole the show. To go with his miniskirts held up by suspenders, his models displayed bare breasts. Not to be undone, Bohan's girls wore not a single bra and slithered unencumbered about the salon. Hardly unusual, perhaps, but one mannequin, wearing nothing but a black velvet sheath split straight up the front, caused Cecil Beaton to drop his pencil. "She looks as if she left the convent too soon," he gasped...
...Hollander, 24, thinks he knows why: "At a rock concert, the atmosphere is love. The rock groups talk their language. But at a classical concert, all they see is a guy in white tie and tails coming out very up tight on a platform. That's a plastic mannequin - society's little machine running up there. If live concerts are going to survive, the artists themselves are going to have to change...
...escorted viewers on the weirdest-and most fascinating-excursion since the days of The Twilight Zone. The first episode, an adaptation of John Collier's short story, Special Delivery, successfully elaborated on a typical Collier theme-a young man (Dennis Waterman) falls in love with a department-store mannequin (Carol Lynley) and dies in its/her arms...
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Eve," John Collier's eerie story, is all about a young department store window dresser who falls in love with a mannequin. First in a series of suspense thrillers. Premiere...