Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes: "Albums should have their own personality... you should come away from them with the satisfaction that you have experienced a work of art... This album is me, and I hope people enjoy it." And you will. Listen to him and peace will cover you slowly as a settling silk parachute...
...grows through them) are country-pub elegant, paneled in wormy chestnut and hung with copper artifacts and sculptures. The most sumptuous salon, the glass-enclosed Crystal Room, shimmers in pastel pinks, greens and yellows, sun-dappled by day, glimmering by night under Waterford and Baccarat chandeliers. Everything, from the silk-screened tablecloths to the neo-Tiffany lamps, was designed or selected by Warner...
...Washington fashion setter who was in Paris last week, "Aren't I simply devastatingly dazzling!" It is not, at from $2,000 to $10,000 per outfit, for humble folks. Saint Laurent has used with theatrical abandon the old luxurious, tactile fabrics: satin, gold and silver lame, silk faille, velvet, taffeta, chiffon, chenille, mousseline and moire. The materials, fashioned into 106 outfits for Saint Laurent's July 28 showing, bring back blouses with billowing sleeves, bouffant skirts and, yes, soft petticoats, with tight, wasp waistlines defined by cummerbunds, corselets and cinched belts for day and evening wear...
...boyhood and family life. "I was born in a shop," he liked to say, referring to his mother's modest lacemaking establishment; for all his rebellion, an incorrigible petit bourgeois, pinching every franc, lived within Celine. At 14 he dropped out of school and worked at a silk shop and as an errand boy. In the evenings, eyes "burning with lack of sleep," as he recalled, he studied on his own, managing to pass the difficult exam for a baccalaureat degree...
...this country they have Father's Day and Mother's Day, and they might as well have a Guru's Day," said the small, closely cropped Indian dressed in a red wool ski hat, red silk robes and red 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...