Word: pasteles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relieve the sterile monotony of nurses' uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs-nunlike wimples with white maxidresses -were harmless affairs that might make ward nurses look functional if not fashionable. But the third-a pastel green body stocking with a white miniskirt-was obviously designed only for the most nubile nurses, and brought howls of amused indignation from hospital personnel. "The patients will probably collapse at the sight of a big nurse going wobble, wobble down the wards in one of those," said Patricia Ward...
Throughout the film there is the discomforting contrast between savagery and soft pastel colors, much as if Renoir had painted an execution. Chabrol's talent is very nearly matched by that of his wife Stephane, who gives touching depth to the role of the existential Gallic heroine...
Performance casts Mick as a freaky rock singer who has given it all up and lives in a cavernous house in Notting Hill with two handmaidens, a little girl, some draperies, a few pastel pillows and a lot of dope. Into this heady atmosphere comes a hood on the lam (James Fox) who rents the downstairs room as a hideout. The hood corrupts the singer, the singer corrupts the hood, and the two handmaidens (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton) just hang around, giggling a lot and getting into bed and king-sized bathtubs with anyone available. The film, which pretends...
...find tips in Rags on where to buy surplus U.S. Navy nurses' uniforms, French navy underwear, Australian army shorts, handmade American Indian buckskin boots, T shirts appliqued with a Flash Gordon thunderbolt, sheets imprinted with "acts of love," and the "perfect confrontation accessory"-imitation police truncheons "in gentle pastel shades...
...A.M.C. models under the headline: "I can't believe that people enjoy paying more for a car than they have to." Mary Wells Lawrence, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, the agency that produced the ad, made her reputation with frivolous promotions like painting Braniff Airways planes in pastel colors and suiting up the stewardesses in Pucci pajamas. Such stunts, she agrees, would not work today. "You can't emphasize fantastic luxury," she says. "What smells right at the moment is sweetness, honesty and a clear explanation of value...