Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dress with a jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias silk twill. One item too special for mass reproduction: Valentino's hand-painted stockings, which sell Rome for $50 a pair. Reason, said Lord & Taylor, is that they are too fragile and too perishable...
Clarke's technique is similar to Andy Warhol's photographic silk-screen caricatures in that it is based on elementary colors laid one atop another. But unlike Warhol, Clarke actually seems tp like colors that harmonize, and he keeps them in tune. The silky gown of Charpentier's Mile. Charlotte is reduced to four shades of grey, but they balance precisely. Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People becomes a tatterdemalion tapestry of rich reds, browns, rusts and golds, a country mile closer to paisley than pop. Clarke's new old masters are selling fast...
...latest In place for the international set. Designed by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira (TIME cover, Sept. 6, 1963), it is a 10,000-acre, $300 million resort complex that will have 15 hotels, a 27-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, four shopping centers, a silk-stocking residential area for 120,000 people and a zoological garden designed not only for tourists but for Ivory Coasters, who often do not get to see the fauna of their own country...
...being worn by just about everybody from Lyndon Johnson, who fancies the comfort of turtlenecks for travel aboard Air Force One, to the Duke of Windsor, who slips into one for small, informal dinner parties. To go with tuxedos for evening, turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with French cuffs. Another evening alternative is the Russian-style, high-collared rubashka (cossack shirt), which buttons up the side and is much favored by Colonel Serge Obolensky, the White Russian public relations man from Manhattan. Italian Jet Setter Count Rodolfo Crespi dresses up his rubashka with diamond...
Last week surgeons at New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn described an antiseptic suture that seems to be just what Lister was looking for. Dr. Harry H. LeVeen and colleagues reasoned that if old-fashioned silk suture thread offers hiding places for germs, it will also have room to absorb a fair amount of antibacterial chemical. After swelling the silk to make it still more absorbent, they soaked it in a preparation of benzethonium, a modern, potent germ killer. Then they tested the sutures in mice, and got 100% protection against infection for at least five days...