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...point, anyway, there can be no argument. "La Belle Epoque," the new show of period high fashion organized by Diana Vreeland for New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and underwritten by Pierre Cardin, is an eyeful and a noseful. The eye is ravished by a theatrical assembly of more than 150 women's, men's and children's costumes, representing thousands of yards of fabric coaxed into stunning shape with a skill and diligence that today cannot be had anywhere outside of major surgery. The olfactory nerve, meantime, gets a good working over from...
...Vreeland's ten previous collaborations with the museum's Costume Institute have been both hot tickets and publicity bonanzas, and "La Belle Epoque" shows every sign of being a smash too. The women's gowns of the era, which by Vreeland's chronology developed in the last half of the 19th century and ended on the eve of the first World War, were opulent and imperial. They may have been the most extravagant fashion since the court of the Sun King. Worth, Doucet, Callot Soeurs, Poiret: the great fashion houses are all represented with gowns...
...audience in the U.S. and Europe had discovered Erté. Former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland declared that no one in the 20th century had had a greater influence on fashion. Bar bra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and other Hollywood folk began collecting his original costume and scenic designs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has bought more than 200 of his drawings and paintings...
...getting the reader to shake his head in bewilderment. Yes, it is embarrassing if the height of the social season occurs when Bianca Jagger rides through a Studio 54 party on a white horse led a naked man and woman. And it is ludicrous when geriatric fashion priestess Diana Vreeland comments, "The thing about Bianca is the patrician quality." Trow puts together a good piece of debunking journalism. One only wishes he had not confined it in the thinking of his first essay, and let the sillinessof his subjects speak more for itself...
...Robert Vreeland, 35, a biologist from Portland, remembered looking up to see some of his partners beginning to slip. Said he: "I yelled for them to self-arrest, to dig in with their axes, but they didn't have time. I braced myself. I could see I was going to be hit. I got my ax in a couple of times, but it came out. It was like a ball of people falling through the air. There wasn't anything I could do." Vreeland and eleven companions survived. Four were killed outright; a fifth died a few hours...