Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diana Tatum is a model. She is 5 ft. 8 in. tall, and she normally weighs 117 lbs. For the presentation of the James Galanos spring collection at Neiman- Marcus in Houston, she weighed 107 lbs. The look, the body for Galanos, is a flat front, a flat behind and no waist, she says. "His show is very prestigious. If you can do this one, you are automatically booked for everything. That is why everyone diets so hard beforehand...
...wisps running around backstage match the ideal. Some require aid such as wrapping their hips in Ace bandages, using a girdle handmade out of half a girdle, layering on support hose--or all three. Galanos cuts his show samples to fit Pat Jones, his longtime associate. In Houston, a model banished from the lineup expressed a desire to force-feed Twinkies to Jones...
Natalie Tirrell, a cool cerebral presence who is Galanos' top model, his "first girl," drifts in and out, showing clothes carefully calculated to meet each client's taste. "That dress is no good, you can't have it," the saleswoman commands, in the bantering tone habitual to women whose living is made by treating other women like rich babies. The department keeps clientele books, with histories of purchases and discreet information on husband's job, working habits, traveling time, ages of children and weekend homes. Thank-you notes are sent, inquiries made about "your darlin' son Marc...
These things change, of course. Not a month ago, Karen Hilton, a director of New York's Wilhelmina model agency, was talking about her newest and ritziest signing. Princess Stephanie of Monaco, she said, "has the look that is in, a little boyish but sexy." Now, she insists, "people are just looking for something to say about her because she's a princess. She never struck me as boyish." It appears that the princess, like a new imported automobile, is undergoing some last-minute modification for domestic consumption...
...Europe, she has already appeared in her new guise as a supersalaried (reportedly $7,000 to $10,000 for a standard photo session) fashion supermodel. It seems like a retake of some 35 years ago, when her mother, Grace Kelly, was a model before becoming a movie star. She projected a serene, society-page sexiness. Stephanie has a contem- porary appeal: athletic, funky, challenging. She has been a mannequin only a few months, but she is on the cusp of signing a hefty contract with the Italian designer Enrico Coveri (exact figures to be publicized only when...