Word: satin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Courrèges concentrated on pointed hoods and capes in crinkly vinyl for day, satin-lined velvet for night, cutout minitunics over pants and slinky skirts, and a gaggle of see-through blouses. Givenchy shaped his long dresses with meticulous pin-tucked pleats, and emphatically ratified the romantic look with a black velvet pantsuit rounded at the hips and ruffled in black taffeta...
...permanent exhibition when the museum expands its American Wing. One of the earliest rooms contains a severe but elegant Duncan Phyfe parlor set done around 1837 in the master's late Empire style. Twenty years later, the fashion for historical revivals was in full swing; the yellow satin sofa and chairs of the John Taylor Johnston parlor are a free adaptation of Louis XVI neoclassicism by the French-trained New York designer Léon Marcotte. Over them hangs a chandelier that cunningly conceals newfangled gas piping beneath its fake candles and pseudo-18th century glass...
...lives in a terraced penthouse off the Via Veneto. His proudest possessions are an awesome round bed with black satin sheets and an awesome American blonde named Jill Purcell, who refers to herself as "Lionel's Girl Friday-and Girl Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday." She doesn't even mind that Lionel occasionally entertains local talent, she says, "as long as they make their own beds and help out in the kitchen...
...featured a line of python-printed chiffon dresses (Mme. Pompidou took hers to Chicago last month and wore it with a gold ser pent belt). Givenchy's snaky stretch-wool suit is already being copied, scale for scale, and London Designer Jean Muir has a whole group of satin separates, all slithery with the python pattern. America's Adele Simpson and Bill Blass have embossed the markings onto vel vet and chiffon; Halston has gone so far as to tie-dye scarves to look like cobra coils...
Jimmy Ellis looked beautiful as he bounded into the ring resplendent in a gold satin robe with sparkling lapels. He pranced. He danced. And, while 18,079 fight fans in Madison Square Garden roared in anticipation, he tauntingly aimed a flurry of punches at Joe Frazier standing across the ring. Twelve minutes and four rounds later, Ellis looked awful. Eyes glazed and face puffed, he sat in his corner while Manager Angelo Dundee sponged his forehead and asked him questions. No response. Then Dundee pinched Ellis, pounded his knees and shoved ice down his trunks. Still no response. Mercifully...