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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warmth and Style. "It is the young," according to Furrier Jacques Kaplan, "who are making furs an up-front fashion. They do not want status, just warmth and style." With youth in mind, and to revive a market that dropped 40% in sales between 1947 and 1967, Kaplan branched out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Skin Game | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

"Five thousand young people are there," TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler wrote, describing a Frank Zappa concert in Philadelphia. "They are expecting to be blasted out of their seats by a succession of rock groups like Jeff Beck, and Sly & the Family Stone. But the Mothers of Invention, who come on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Mephisto in Hollywood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

As it happens, that was one of the Mothers' last concerts. For five years, Zappa and the eight other Mothers tried to make satiric hash of rock, displaying a suicidal urge, or so it seemed to many, to play music so weird, as Zappa put it, that "you just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Mephisto in Hollywood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

The move was far from suicidal. Zappa already has enough material recorded to produce twelve more Mothers LPs. If they are like the first eight, that will mean words too dirty and music too complex to be played on the radio. No matter. It is plainly time to branch out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Mephisto in Hollywood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Not all the new furs are so high-priced. Some of them (wolf, mole, bull and hamster) cost well under $700, several (rabbit and fox paws), less than $300. The customer will obviously be paying more for the labor than for the fur. For, as Kaplan says of the new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Skin Game | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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