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...short story Monte Sant' Angela, Arthur Miller writes of the Jewish experience: "The whole history is packing bundles and getting away." That may have been. Now the business, Jews hope, is unpacking bundles and settling where they are. They seem determined to follow the 614th commandment
Other New York designers have gone Chinese as well, although most of the designer-created lines will not hit the national market until next year. At Bonwit Teller, however, the flashy, far-out ideas of Giorgio di Sant'Angelo are on display now. His basic looks include a dolman-sleeved, high-waisted body suit, with a loose, short-sleeved long robe that goes over it. "I think this will replace the poncho," he says. "In winter, the Chinese sometimes wear six of these robes-the layered look is really very Chinese...
...dolman (or batwing) version, which has long, wide sleeves growing out of its wide waistband. There are snug, armless sweater tubes and long sweater dresses. Many sweaters now sport knitted-in portraits of people or animals. Betsey Johnson's "ecology" line features trees and fish; Giorgio di Sant'Angelo portrays a plane taking off. Stan Herman's trompe 1'oeil sweater dresses have fake belts and scarves knitted into the material. Others contrast jazzy colors, stripes and polka dots in dazzling juxtaposition. "Sweaters are completely different now," says Sant'Angelo. "We have these fabulous synthetic...
...Prodigy. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso was born at Malaga, under the sign of Scorpio, on Oct. 25, 1881. His mother claimed that the first word he uttered was "piz"-baby talk for lapiz or pencil. "When I was twelve," the artist boasted later, "I could draw like Raphael." He could not, of course. But when he was 15, he had already exhausted the limits of academic teaching, as is amply shown in The Altar Boy, 1896 (No. 1 in TIME's survey...
There are only a few total dissenters to the classic concept, and one is Giorgio di Sant'Angelo, who is something of a constant rebel. "Fashion people think it will save the dress business, but it ain't gonna save it," he says. "Who wants an old-fashioned dress? Women won't buy the same dress they bought in the '40s and pay three times as much for it." As his alternative, Sant'Angelo is offering bright colors in an Oriental ambience. "My new clothes have a feeling of the Chinese," he says. "But modern...