Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooks proposes to start with clothes that make "strong, simple statements"-like his red-on-pink dinner gown in crepe with velvet and satin jacket. He would also like to see Pat wear more jewelry, including fancy belts and long chain necklaces hung with crosses or medallions. But he suspects that the President would not approve...
Audacious Initiatives. One artist led to another. Poet-Painter André Verdet ordered a sport coat of grey velvet curtain material. Picasso took one look at Verdet's coat and was off to see the tailor. The two men hit it off instantly, and after Sapone had cooked Picasso some Neapolitan spaghetti, the artist gave him three lithographs and an order to "sew something...
...never tells me what he wants," says Sapone. "He leaves that entirely up to me. I search for special cloth in Naples, or I wander through mountain villages in Yugoslavia and Italy looking for 'homemade' materials like Dalmatian felt or an Abruzzi velvet. Picasso loves velvet." Once Sapone delighted Picasso with a pair of cuffless, horizontally striped trousers. "I've always wanted them," said the master. "Courbet had a pair just like them...
Other Sapone contributions to Picasso's wardrobe include a white silk suit, which the artist wears to bull fights, and a brown velvet smock with a collar so high and broad that the tailor told Picasso: "Your head emerges from the collar like a flower from a pot." In return, Picasso has given him about 50 paintings and sketches - including a powerful War and Peace pastel contrasting dancing nymphs with a hideous fire-belching monster. According to a Riviera dealer, the work, which Picasso gave in payment for a pair of trousers, would now fetch...
...anything from velvet slacks (Magnelli) and collarless tweed jackets (Hartung) to felt capes (Alfred Manessier) and black leather suits (Campigli...