Word: valentino
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They were lovely hangers for any dress. Baroness Fiona Thyssen slinked down the runway in harlequin pants by Galitzine. Princess Luciano Pignatelli drifted by in Valentino's feather-and-sequin coat. Princess Ira von Furstenberg pranced on in a Mondrian dress by St. Laurent. And princely P.R. Man Serge Obolensky, who had rounded up his titled friends to stage the haute couture parade, beamed as 2,600 ladies and their husbands paid $10 apiece to jam into Alexander's department store in Manhattan to see what fancy duds a bargain outfit could include on its racks -and incidentally...
...show time in the Versailles Room at Las Vegas' Riviera. Out to stage center rolled an 8-ft. by 10-ft. cake, which parted to produce, in a blinding flash of red sequins-the headliner. "Well, look me over," said Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 46. "I didn't get dressed to go unnoticed." There was a wave of admiring laughter. His artist's hands reached forward to better display his ruffled shirt cuffs, his diamond studs, his jewelled butterfly bow tie. And lest anyone worry, he assured the house, "Actually, I never wear clothes like this offstage...
...slender five-footer who parts his hair squarely in the middle a la Rudolph Valentino, Sobel, 74, is one of the oldest and best-known of 5,000-odd U.S. teaching pros, who make their living by selling clubs, balls and assorted haberdashery, and by giving lessons-mostly to amateurs, but often to the big-name stars of the tournament circuit. Arnold Palmer still takes lessons from his dad, a teaching pro at Pennsylvania's Latrobe Country Club, and Jack Nicklaus polishes his game under the watchful eye of Jack Grout at Miami Beach's La Gorce Country...
Tickling the Tops. But even with the plumage, the gimlet-eyed audience of buyers and editors was short on applause. Most of them had just flown in from Italy, where they were more charmed. In Rome, designers went black and white with an op twist-in everything from Valentino's sequined, zebra-topped lounging pajamas to Fabiani's chiaroscuro plaid evening coat. In Florence, Emilio Pucci produced print tights under an Empire dress slit to the armpits on each side. And Italians seemed intent on depluming the bird world too, particularly ostriches, who had better hide more than...
Fabiani used grey ostrich plumes to match his grey chiffon gown. Valentino stitched them all over his palazzo pajamas, tickled the tops of dresses with them, and in a crazy burst, banded Dalmatian-spotted coats with wide ruchings of ostrich...