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What, then, are social historians to make of the "revolution" that overwrought fashion editors were declaring last week (see MODERN LIVING) after Yves Saint Laurent revealed his fall collection? What mysteries of the Zeitgeist were riding on the mannequins' shoulders? Saint Laurent's muse told him women will now look like czarist imitations of gypsies, booted peasants in $5,000 velvets and taffetas, long-limbed and slightly fantastic creatures. The feminine mystique becomes the feminine muzhik...
...expensive. The frocks are romantically opulent, pointing away from unisex or any parody of male dress. Maybe women feel sufficiently liberated by now to allow themselves frankly "feminine" dress. But are women ready for such high costume-and would they feel comfortable in such operatic garb? At any rate, Saint Laurent seems to have decreed a turn away from politics (women a few years ago were wearing army shirts and cartridge belts) toward a different, Ballets Russes fantasy. The question is whether women will follow...
...since 1789 had the word revolution been bandied about so freely in Paris as it was last week. Storming the barricades of conventional fashion was Designer Yves Saint Laurent, 40, whose latest haute couture collection could alter the way women will dress in the next decade. The 800 or so journalists, store buyers and private clients invited to the lavish showing were awestruck. Some were even reduced to tears as Saint Laurent's models glided along the runway, demonstrating what many predicted would be the New New Look: narrow waist, calf-length bouffant skirt for daytime and huge...
...knee socks. He was himself a notable guru, Muktananda Paramahansa. So, last week at a secluded retreat that was once a Catskill Mountains resort hotel in upstate New York, more than 2,000 followers staged a day-long celebration in honor of the man they consider a saint...
...still sneak out of the ashram for a quick puff). But many testify that the guru has genuinely helped them to cast off "negative emotions" and achieve a certain tranquillity. Says Muktananda of his own mysterious powers: "I am however you see me. If you see me as a saint, I am a saint. If you see me as a fool, I am a fool. If you see me as an ordinary man, I am an ordinary man." Asked how he sees himself, he answers, "I see myself as myself...