Word: see-through
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There is hardly a mod shop from San Francisco and New York City to London and Paris that does not have its supply of see-through inflatable vinyl pillows decorated with boldly colored patterns silk-screened on the inside. When they first appeared a year ago, pillows seemed like just another passing pop phenomenon. Instead, they have proved to be the precursor of a new school of design that believes furniture ought to be, or at least look, invisible. Using vinyls and plastics, young American and European designers are now mass-producing chairs, sofas and tables that...
...Paris, three young designers-Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann and Antonio Stinco-have simplified their furniture to the point where two basic units is all it takes to make a roomful of see-through inflatables. One unit is a vinyl "log" nearly 6 ft. long, the other a square pillow 3 in. thick. Hung vertically, six or eight logs form a room divider. Piled up, three or four pillows make a backless seat. Snapped together with built-in tabs, logs and pillows can be combined to form a wide variety of armchairs and sofas...
...them peek through a floor-length skirt slit to the hip like a half-peeled banana. Crahay at Lanvin blossomed forth with frilly organdy bloomers under flaring, tentlike little-girl dresses, and Castillo even tried an evening tunic with sheer pantaloons. Carrying exposure further, Paco Rabanne whipped up see-through dresses made of ostrich feathers and transparent plastic disks...
...bestselling look in women's evening fashions this year is sparkle plenty, and then some. It can be seen in silver and gold lame shoes, hats, bags, evening pajamas, raincoats and even bikinis; it comes in sequined and jewel-encrusted and beaded dresses, and in silver mesh and see-through dresses with dazzling bras to go under them...
Katharine Balfour, dressed as Calpurnia, even hacked up an old nightgown to wear under Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked...