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Pink Satin and a Red Veil. In Istanbul during the next two days, De Gaulle found the pomp and circumstance he most enjoys. Attending a reception in the vast, marble-columned hall of the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, De Gaulle sat with Premier Süleyman Demirel on pink satin cushions atop a gold divan. Beneath a seven-ton chandelier, long tables were weighted with 30 different kinds of food and 35 desserts prepared by 70 chefs...
...many on a par with Kenneth Noland and the late Morris Louis. While the canvases of both Louis and Noland are generally filled with several areas of color that rest flatly on the canvas, Olitski has mastered the art of spraying on paint to create a single, subtly shaded veil that conveys an illusion of depth. It is a painstaking process; on a single painting he may use as many as ten different spray guns, apply dozens of different coats. When completed, the painting gives a viewer the sensation of gazing into a shimmering, bottomless sea. To dramatize the effect...
Even bolder is Giorgio di Sant' Angelo's gold-plated chain bikini, which depends for modesty on two layers of chains; hopefully, even if the outer layer parts, the under layer of smaller baby chains will provide a veil. Rustproof, the suit can be worn swimming. "Chain on the nude body can be very decent," insists Sant' Angelo, who gives the hippies credit for putting the chain back into fashion. Says the Manhattan designer with approbation: "They took the symbol of bondage and transformed it into a symbol of emancipation...
...would be a shame to let all that experience go to waste. So when her two friends Mia Fonssagrives and Vicky Tiel showed their first collection in Paris, Liz contributed her own inspiration for a nuptial garment: a white body stocking worn under a diaphanous floor-length veil embroidered in flowers. But that was nothing compared with the outfit that Liz wore to the opening-a tunic and tights of hyperkinetic geometric pattern. "She's not supposed to be chic," explained Mia. "Her career requires that she be stupefying...
...once bouffant hair pulled back in stylish severity beneath a 15-yard tulle veil, the bride swept down the stair case into the East Room of the White House. She moved in metronomic precision on the arm of her father, the 36th President of the United States, beneath the stern, portraited gaze of four predecessors (none a Democrat). The 32-man chamber orchestra...