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Molyneux is a curious hybrid. An Englishman whose line is Arc de Triomphe, never Marble Arch, he is the Parisian equivalent of Manhattan's Mainbocher, a classicist devoted to the soft look and tailored line. Let others raise hems to the heavens; for Molyneux, knee-length skirts are no...
Designer André Courrèges, by contrast, showed a collection that was more like a countdown, with models' hair cropped to the cranium, their faces often masked behind huge white plastic goggles, and a display of far-out fashions that swung down the runways to the way-in...
Jacques Heim had other ideas, mostly leggy: there were textured stockings, pleated culottes, ruffled pajamas, and panties peeking out from under a chiffon dress to add "a discreet note of eroticism." But the biggest gasps in town greeted a Heim stretch suit patterned like a cobra skin and protected (he...
The new Dior suits have flaring jackets and full, pleated or gathered skirts. Dresses, in sunny pastels and fresh flowered prints, acknowledge the shapes they clothe; so do the coats, with narrow belts that define waistlines instead of camouflaging them. There was not a pair of pants or a bared...
Boston newspapers have only hinted at these goings on, but that college muffled drum the Harvard Crimson, crawled behind Mother's Skirts, figuratively pleading boys will be boys and Harvard lads are really little goodles.