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...other end of the spectrum is Manhattan's Georges Kaplan, whose co-owner and designer, Jacques Kap lan, has long been one of society's favorite purveyors of both conventional and novel furs. For mothers and daughters, he offers matching Mondrian-dyed rabbit dressed with red, green and white rectangles - $395 for her and $295 for her daughter...
They were lovely hangers for any dress. Baroness Fiona Thyssen slinked down the runway in harlequin pants by Galitzine. Princess Luciano Pignatelli drifted by in Valentino's feather-and-sequin coat. Princess Ira von Furstenberg pranced on in a Mondrian dress by St. Laurent. And princely P.R. Man Serge Obolensky, who had rounded up his titled friends to stage the haute couture parade, beamed as 2,600 ladies and their husbands paid $10 apiece to jam into Alexander's department store in Manhattan to see what fancy duds a bargain outfit could include on its racks -and incidentally...
...result, however fetching, would probably have turned Mondrian an unprimary shade of purple. Few artists enjoy seeing their paintings turned directly into dresses, let alone Mondrian. A sturdy Dutchman of strict Calvinist origins, he lived like a loner...
...quest for the underlying graphs that to him expressed reality, Mondrian became fascinated with the functional artificiality of the machine esthetic. In human terms, this translated into the Charleston; Mondrian so furiously loved the dance that when the Dutch government banned it he refused to return home. He moved to New York, where the gridlike streets matched the syncopated rhythms of his art in paintings that he titled Boogie-Woogie. In 1944 he died there of pneumonia...
Last spring Mondrian's chief descendant in threads was engineering-trained Courrèges. This fall it is St. Laurent, who got the idea from a book of paintings that his mother gave to him. Of course, a St. Laurent original of a copied Mondrian costs $800; the highest price that the artist ever got during his lifetime for one of his paintings...