Word: renta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capraro is a Manhattan-born designer who went into business last July after eight years as an assistant to Oscar de la Renta, and at 31 he is still relatively little known in the fashion industry. He was in his Manhattan office in January sketching some shorts and sun dresses for his summer collection when the phone rang: the White House. Betty Ford had noticed some of his designs in the Washington Star-News and wanted him to fly down to the capital to discuss his making clothes...
...first visit. To give him some idea of her taste, she pulled from her closets "a gray thing that I've loved." "Why, that's mine," said Capraro, recognizing a skirt-and-sweater outfit trimmed with feathers that he had designed while working for De la Renta. Delighted, Mrs. Ford selected twelve outfits from Capraro's regular spring line and also asked him to create five gowns for state dinners, using fabrics that the President had brought home from Japan. "There are some clothes that look great on the runway, but you can't wear them...
...marvelous-all the underground is here." Mrs. Graham was seated between Senator Charles Percy, another Nixon persona non grata, and Washington Redskins Star Running Back Larry Brown. "It was so funny," Betty Ford said later, "hearing Kay Graham leaning across Larry Brown to explain to Mrs. Oscar de la Renta just who Larry Brown...
...emphasis is once again on the most basic of feminine garments: the dress. Liberated from the crisp, form-fitted lines of recent seasons, it now billows, ripples and flows. "I don't care if the biggest-selling thing in stores is pants," said Designer Oscar de la Renta, whose own new collection opened last week in New York. "The dress...
...arranged: five top French couturiers, including Pierre Cardin and Hubert de Givenchy, would reach across the Atlantic to Halston, Anne Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Stephen Burrows and Bill Blass. Together they would have a ball scarving, belting, bigskirting or otherwise adorning the likes of Liza Minnelli, Josephine Baker and Capucine. The performers, together with ordinary mannequins, would stage a kind of high-budget vaudeville called "Le Grand Divertissement à Versailles." The money? Ah, yes, patrons like the Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild would angel the operation, and people like Amanda Burden, Princess Grace, the Charles...