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When Halston presented his fall collection in Manhattan last week, one model looked as if she dreamed she was at Fort Knox. Clad in long green Ultrasuede evening culottes and a creamy silk shirt open to the waist, she wore for toppers a bra of solid gold mesh. The bra was designed by Italy's Elsa Peretti, who explained: "It is worn as a jewel, it has a good feeling on the body and it is amusing. You can put it in a little bag and take it with you anywhere." For about $4,000, you can take...
...what this world is starving for, and he is clearly a man who knows his Munchkins. No witch doctor could have conjured up a more fantastical stewpot of sights for bored eyes. The tornado that sweeps Dorothy to Oz is a dancer whose headgear spouts 100 yards of black silk swirling to the rafters. The Yellow Brick Road is a quartet of lanky dudes in brilliant yellow brick-patterned tailcoats. An armor of beer cans and garbage cans makes the Tin Man. Originally scheduled not only to direct and costume the show but to do the choreography and play...
...user the overblown sets and casts of thousands that helped to kill of movie musicals in the late 60's when Fred and Ginger started dancing, all the people and furniture disappeared. Cybill and Burt, on the other hand, come dangerously close to bashing into a number of white silk couches--and also the other dancers...
...15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles. "This room you see here," Hideyoshi would tell his guests as he gave them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes, while these rooms contain costly swords and weapons." It sounds like an Oriental Hearst at San Simeon, but the vast ostentation of the Momoyama warlords had a political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity...
Fabled Cipangu. These contrasts, within its art, between the spartan coarseness of a tea receptacle and the patient refinement of a makie lacquer box, between the swift brushwork of an ink painting and the daunting accumulation of labor represented by the embroidery of a silk No costume, have always given the Momoyama period a peculiar interest to Western eyes. This half-century was the point in Japanese culture that, in its secular largesse and curiosity about the real world, most resembled the European Renaissance. Indeed, it was during the Momoyama that the West's idea of Japan was shaped...