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Despite the growth of general design, French fashion designers are still lionized. None has enjoyed a more sustained success than Yves Saint Laurent, 38, the boy wonder who blazed onto the haute couture scene at 21 and has stayed at the top ever since. With 80 boutiques round the world selling men's and women's clothing and a wide range of accessories, Saint Laurent rings up sales of $8 million in women's ready-to-wear alone. He has dabbled in towel and sheet designs because they "are like designing scarves," but, unlike Cardin, has declined...
Costa Gavras, the creator of Z and State of Siege also made a film called The Confession about the Slansky trials (Czech purge trials) in the late forties. With Yves Montand. This is the beginning of a C-G series at B.U.'s Hayden Hall. Tonight...
...brings the Boy Scout summer bag and squash gloves--a strictly one night proposition. And then there is the hiker with the five pairs of down booties, and a full wardrobe of down pants. You know, that's the one flaunting the Kelty rademark like it's a Yves St. Laurent label--a walking camping supermarket...
...where films like Casablanca, La Guerre Est Finie and Five East Pieces attract people of both the realist and romantic schools. But their reactions to the films are likely to occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching Jack Nicholson board a freight truck for Alaska, the realist is liable to yawn, comment that it was a "good flick," and go happily to Brigham's for ice cream before returning to study...
...galactic attraction of the previews was Yves St. Laurent, perennial sun-prince of haute couture. Midst gypsy violinists and the Second Empire decor of his new couture house, St. Laurent presented a collection that left little doubt 1974 could turn into the year of the dress. Unlike the sad "sack" of the '60s, St. Laurent's Naive Chemise features more elegant tailoring, arm-length sleeves with tightly buttoned cuffs, high necklines and low, mid-calf hems. "For me, the chemise is an expression of freedom," said Libertarian Yves. "I wanted to make the fabric float over and just...