Word: pucci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies, of course, have their own special needs; the fastest-rising major import so far this year is steel, which has risen 68% to $864 million. But consumer goods account for a full 40% of imports, include some of the sharpest gainers. The U.S. demand for Italian shoes, Pucci pants and British woolens has lifted imports of clothes and tex tiles this year by 18%, to $853 million. Purchases of leisure goods-German toys, Japanese baseball gloves, French musical instruments and the like-have risen 20%, to $187 million. Electrical apparatus, notably Japanese transistor radios and TV sets...
...caviar and that of pop and pot. After several paper cups full of champagne and apple cider, the socialites unbuttoned their suit jackets, set their ties at half-mast, and mixed it up with the denizens of the underground on the dance floor. Said one girl in a Pucci gown: "This is a gas! I mean, this is what I call a real party...
...poster: "Those looking for Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, or Andy Williams, please repair to Reno." A bossa nova group called Brazil '65 and Jazz Pianist Joey Bushkin have been doing the opening honors. Couples, both invigorated and intoxicated by the rarefied air, shuffle about the floor in Pucci gowns, Marimekko shifts and madras jackets. For those who do not mind the cold (a windy 50°), there is dancing outdoors in a setting of spotlighted pines and crags. Refreshed by a late theater supper of shrimp Creole or beef stroganoff, customers spin on until 1 a.m., when the gondolas...
...applause. Most of them had just flown in from Italy, where they were more charmed. In Rome, designers went black and white with an op twist-in everything from Valentino's sequined, zebra-topped lounging pajamas to Fabiani's chiaroscuro plaid evening coat. In Florence, Emilio Pucci produced print tights under an Empire dress slit to the armpits on each side. And Italians seemed intent on depluming the bird world too, particularly ostriches, who had better hide more than their heads in the future...
Every woman knows how the scarf-makers tried. They snipped everything from chiffon to cotton to sensuous silk into triangles, trapezoids and squares. Givenchy and Balenciaga dappled the shapes with abstract slashes; Emilio Pucci colored them with wildly vibrant designs that looked like stained glass; lesser lights tried everything from polka dots to reproductions of Botticelli paintings. But even when the Mona Lisa was pulled flat over the hair and reefed under the chin, the result was strictly Ellis Island-that flattopped look, with a tail either drooping forlornly at half-mast or sticking out behind like the flight deck...