Word: sweater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison agrees. She too interviewed many fashion designers for the story-on one occasion while wearing blue jeans and a sweater. Bad form? Evidently not. "At one point, I asked a designer if he could cite a perfect example of current American style. He answered, 'You are, darling...
...head of the class is Halston, born Roy Halston Frowick in Des Moines 43 years ago. The first to take the "less-is-more" approach to designing clothes, Halston revived the once fashionable sweater set and sweater dress by using cashmere, argyle and matte jersey, and four years ago introduced Japanese-made ultrasuede, the most sought-after covering since the fig leaf. While he dresses some of the world's most fashionable women,* Halston's soft, tactile approach to sportswear has also won him immense success as a ready-to-wear magnate; his off-the-peg clothes sell...
...clothes are comfortable and uncluttered. Seemingly influenced early in his career by Yves St. Laurent-though he denies it -three-time Coty Winner Klein has the French master's pipeline to the female fancy. Describing a typical Klein ensemble of skirt, skinny coat and cowled sweater as "the best basic look in fashion today," Vogue last September pronounced: "If you were around 100 years from now and wanted a definitive picture of the American look in 1975, you'd study Calvin Klein." His clothes will earn $40 million at retail this year; his licensing agreements, covering everything from...
...another, borrowing rooms, meeting with the orchestra manager in the basement, rapping with the stage managers near the light-board. He is quickly recognizable. "I can't work in a coat and tie," he says. Adds Singer Marilyn Home: "He must have 50 colors of the same sweater." If he needs to dress formally, Levine can dash home in ten minutes to change at the West Side apartnient he shares with his girl friend, an oboist. He is a man in a major-key mood, and he is convinced that his presence-he will conduct two to four performances...
...lone figure bounds around the Quad decked out in a ski hat, sweater, sweat pants and moccasins. Although it is 10 a.m., jogger is still half-asleep, since his "trainer," an exception to his belief that "Cliffies, for the most part, need help," has just woken him from pleasant dreams...