Word: satin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flags. Says Irving Kriesberg, 46, painter of limerick nonsense images: "It is like lithography-an image is reproduced economically, yet retains the force of originality." Pop Painter Marjorie Strider, 33, used unemotional sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make a show, or a stroll...
...dresses, shoes and undergarments. When a defense attorney objected that "there is not a scintilla of evidence as to their use," Judge Will said gently: "Do you mean you don't know what a brassière is for?" As for the dresses, including a $383 red satin inaugural-ball gown introduced into evidence, the defense solemnly reminded the jury: "Shirley Stratton was the First Lady of Illinois...
...noticeable the moment one walks into a Harvard man's room. Generously pillowed. Besomy red bundles of satin, as if they were blushing at the uses to which they are applied. For a properly pillowed female, exquisitely tilted, makes for the most enjoyable of evenings...
Musicomedy Star Barbra Streisand, 22, is big for feather boas and faded satin negligees from the thrift shop. Funny girl. She also has a weakness for $1,200 South American skunk furs, for man-tailored suits that she designs herself, and other Barbrous whatsits that make fashion's top camp followers whinny for joy. As a walking encyclopaedia of haute kook, she was nominated for the Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1964 Book of the Year by Fashion Consultant Eleanor Lambert, who called her the embodiment of "the nonconformist spirit." In Los Angeles, though, a couturier who calls himself...
...obviously just as good in town, if only someone could figure out how to do it. Luckily, someone did. Just this month, Vogue magazine proudly presented the results of Paris Couturier Courreges' figuring: a pair of slippery, silver-sequinned evening slacks that underscore the area with a white satin bow. The cost? $3,695. The navel? No longer a laughing matter, it presents another sort of public problem: where to look and what to say to its owner...