Word: rudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophisticated styles. To make their clothes "in," counteract the year's lead time they must contend with, and gain more of the market, Wards and Penney have signed up name designers. Wards (last year's total sales: $1.8 billion) has twelve international designers, among them Jacques Heim, Rudi Gernreich, Fabiani and Clodagh of Dublin. J. C. Penney's (1965 sales: $2.3 billion) "Young Junior" look is by Mary Quant, Mitzou of Madrid, Ariel of Paris. Sears (1965 sales: $6.9 billion) calls its collection "Junior Route 1966," describes it as "young, racy, right in style." The catalogue companies...
...Perspectives. The new designs use ingenuity to do what bones and girdling could not. They scorn the plain nude look. Instead, they are finding new ways to make their revelations. For the healthy inside look, both Cole and Stewart have contrived necklines that plunge full and wide. Rudi Gernreich, whose topless suit provided the industry with welcome publicity but negligible sales, has engineered the "bib" suit, which comes loosely up over the middle of the bosom, but leaves the outer reaches marginally exposed, offering a new perspective to the girl watcher who prefers to sneak a sidelong glance rather than...
...year when the temperamental Tartar also left two Soviet "bodyguards" breathless at Le Bourget Airport as he leaped away from the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet troupe to become the most spectacular male dancer in the West. After performing in Paris with Dame Margot Fonteyn at the Third International Dance Festival, Rudi had a sentimental look at his old Leningrad-Kirov comrades for the first time in four years, broke into wild applause from the audience as Compatriot Yuri Soloviev bounded through Bluebird and Giselle. "They dance so beautifully," sighed Rudi. But he carefully avoided dancing backstage for a reunion...
...Rudolf Nureyev, 27, ballet's temperamental Tartar, ever heard of Jimmy Durante? "Nyet," muttered Rudi. They didn't get to know each other much better during the Hollywood taping of an ABC television special to be shown in October. "How about dat!" marveled proboscidiferous Durante, 72, as he watched Nureyev exercising for 40 minutes before his performance. "He takes all dat time to get ready to dance? Me-I start in cold." Fascinated, Jimmy whispered: "He's got awful long hair, too. Dat ain't a wig, is it? He's got a big nose...
...branched into sportswear as well as lingerie, but bras and girdles are still the foundation of its business. In keeping with the shape and mood of the times, Triumph calls its sportswear by such names as "Caprice" and "Swing-times," and its lingerie "Jolly," "Amourette" and "Poesie." Braun applauds Rudi Gernreich as a pacemaker, but has yet to try the topless approach...