Word: yves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action of Goretta's film begins when Marilyn takes Pomme to Normandy for a holiday. Marilyn soon moves in with an American tourist, while Pomme, left at home, meets Francois (Yves Beneyton), a Parisian student, and falls in love with him. Together, they go back to Paris and rent an apartment. Finding Pomme unable to meet his intellectual demands, Francois soon becomes bored with her, and they ultimately break up. Pomme suffers a nervous breakdown and enters a sanitarium...
...show, most of Rykiel's line did not rely on shock value but on the fact that her clothes were imaginative, brilliantly colored and practical. She is the most womanly of designers, who recognizes that "every woman must create her own ambience; it is not I or Yves St. Laurent but the woman who has to create herself and be a unique person." She adds: "I make my clothes for real, living women of our times?not movie stars ?who have to be with children, and men, and go to lunches, receptions, bistros, dinners at Maxim's and business...
...Reggie Jackson of Paris was Yves St. Laurent, who once again batted homers all the way to Bloomingdale's, Benders and Bergdorf s. But it was a markedly different Yves. Said he: "I have found a new form of simplicity." Turning his back on Cossacks and gypsies, he drew his inspiration from "the streets of New York." One YSL eyecatcher: a tricolored cotton shirt worn with sailcloth pants. His ready-to-wear clothes were modern, young and?with one or two see-through and derriere-baring exceptions?eminently wearable on Manhattan's avenues. That?if not his prices...
Stripped down to its essentials, The Lacemaker resembles dozens of tearjerkers about doomed, poor-meets-rich love affairs. The heroine, Pomme (Isabelle Huppert), is 18, a shy attendant at a Paris beauty salon. The hero, François (Yves Beneyton), is a bookish university student from a proper bourgeois family. The two come together while vacationing in glorious Normandy, then return to Paris and set up house on the Left Bank. There the innocent, star-crossed romance suffers a heartbreaking fate at the hands of the cruel real world...
...pretentious rich would jump for joy the way a male model does in one ad--over nine pairs of new shoes in a full page spread. And there are the ubiquitous pictures of a Calvin Klein damsel in satiny "at-home" clothes or a Matisse-like line drawing publicizing Yves St. Laurent's stylish scraps...