Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba January 1967 cd dint successful living new York special tons the fashion Weldon new line of haunt started it was supposed to be quite a commercial happening around the swimming Pool of a health club to show off the merchandise designed by Tiger the Only thing was the kid was sitting in the Beach chair making it happen for he was insouciant you might turning on that Way because he figured the straight dudes from the mass to cameramen with families and House in Pelham Bay that whole bag know grass if you stuck it Down their and the lady editors Here from out town for fashion press they probably think Mary Jane is the name of a new line for sub but it was the bitter unique aromatic like Gau loises cigarettes turned a flight Weldon had set up a bar in the locker room next to the showers and the Sauna for people who still drink Marvin Weldon executive vice was in the locker room playing the big butter and egg Man shooting Amateur pictures with his who smoking marijuana asked if any body smoking marijuana there going right out of i was afraid something like this was going to the health club was filling up with assistant fashion Hanger son and leaders of new Yorks dem world of popped like the Guy in the haircut Over a Carnaby Street double breasted or the other fellow in the trans Parent plastic the Brown Mink Cowboy chaps and nothing the out town press ladies were getting the feeling this was a different sort of happening and they didst like one of them came out of the powder room disorient edly there is a girl in there with nothing on but a Banda id Over one breast Weldon Seymour was like he had no part of although he digs his designer Tiger if we can Only harness some of that Talent of hers two weeks a thais All we she was a pad candidate in medieval Art history he like this girl is going to make a lot of Money for do think this party getting pretty but if anybody taking lets get them out of Tiger insisted on taking Over the she sent out the she handled the publicity Tiger modelled her own designs of Flimsy psychedelic wiggling on the diving Board for a few minutes time to the beatles and then slipping into the when she her grotesque purple glowing like psychotic made the dress look like a yellow water but what she said you these suits Are Nicholas von a reporter for the Washington went to new York for a mans Eye View of fashion press week where new clothing lines Are shown to and Canadian mostly he turned out to be a Thorn among the photographs were taken at the showings of a number of new the girls who have studied him say John likes to affect Napoleon by posing with his hand inside his this mixture of periods explains Why fashions change rapidly and rapidly while the movements of style and taste Are fashion is connected with time cycles of the mirrored and Light refracting sunbursts of be style Louis Quatorze had political and social it was not vulgar because it was a brocade of the symbolic meaning that ordered but Here is any wife of architect an asteroid of the Sun catching blonde hair in a hazy morning her sculptures body wrapped in a Matutina russian Fox fur which she wore like a Here is Anya seated among the rows of crowded women in Johns her legs in High leather most expensive Anya with her miniature Dachshund on her Anya who said in a softened and throaty Central european bees name is Rothschild you like Dee when the slow was after the Lucky lady editor from out of town had won her free hat in the door prize they had what one of Anas acquaintances called the aftermath i love the aftermath Best its when you get the real the aftermath is the Forenoon sipping of Champagne and nibbling of Chip Lettes and talking when the hoi Pollok of buyers and fashion writer Nave in afraid of tall said John in tones of safely flirtatious be scared to death of Meester Anya her eyes moving from the Little Man to manoeuvring to get the russian Fox fur out of his i accept women All naked and i decorate them according to my John proclaimed but they knew it no real threat even As he kissed another Ladys hand with a theatrical smacking Kenneth leaned against the door Frame and slapped fashions most celebrated hairdressing comb against his the gesture May have meant anything from aggravation to mild lets just say its been a Long the Hairdresser himself to behind him in the hotel room amid Racks of trays of scampering seamstresses and the Short Little Guys Kenneth has for mannequins were Rushing to change and line up in the corridor to make another Quick stepping appearance before the out town fashion Kenneth was using the occasion to show his new not quite he says these things with an accommodating shrug of the he appears to react with no More emotion to the american woman failure to follow fashion form than to the news that the Little lady who makes his wigs in Brooklyn was mugged in the Park with the result that his shipments will be As Kenneth set Benedetta Barzini hair for a sitting for life he talked about an ancient and rusting Curling the kind grandmother used to Frizzle herself on the counter in front of his such if not in quite such fearsome Are the lot for women in the near he he made the observation not As an it was a proposition which women were Welcome to Kenneth has none of that Rasputin like that tinge of sadistic dislike that some men in High fashion have for their woman there has to be a Madwoman relationship in Kenneth and if a Man Doest like women he cant do hair i had a Case of somebody who i finally had to fire because he was just Rotten to this Type beats them up fashion is not an it feeds on mass Media attention which is hard to this week to get the attention there have been org like parties thrown in swimming sedate parties in the lounge of the in the cheeta to the time of blinking lights and a thousand Decibel and Kenneth did nothing but dress hair and be courteous that not he gave Benedetta a Teddy Bear to play with while her new style Waves cooked under one of his the the name the other Guys in the shipping room horsing around with a pair of pinking and everybody was Hee hawing like you do if you have a Union and you dont have to worry that there going to fire you for laughing too those shipping room Guys Are said Leon who was out in front in the sales room of Maxwell 22 storeys above Broadway in the garment the shipping room has a Union and peace of mind looking More like 40 than his True has Here we Are living in what they Call fun City and they Cut the commission of a cloth Salesman that did a million and a half dollars Worth of business last on my last they Cut my they Cut you so youre making a you cant live on that in new York but after 30 years bid youre what else am i going to do mans View of fashion week people were jumping in the hugging each stoned and even Art the health clubs jumped in wearing his clothes i guess the liquor got to weve had parties but never like i dont think i should say How its mayor Lindsay delivered awards to the eight fashion writers who bad been Able to live through 25 years of fashion press in the receiving line was Pepsi cola Board member Joan whose company sponsored the an old swinger whose Pepsi generation swung out 20 years she looked like a corporate dowager her false eyelids cantilevered out Over a cracked cosmetic the Pepsi generation mayor with the Chin Blue eyes got up to give awards and Tell distinguished he began by Way of i get into a lot of trouble when i Tell jokes about the fifth you is littered with earrings dropped by girls in miniskirts who Bend Over to pick them but seriously i Admire the Low swinging designer of the miniskirt style called the but the mayors platform banter is not press weeks that is expressed by Burke of Inco giving a flow of critique of Bis society atop a drafts ans Stool in his studio As the mannequins show the next seasons clothes today a designer is no longer a women Are so Well travelled woman in our Price Range for you can get one medium priced dress Doest need she needs to be stimulated emotionally you know a Rich woman today is no longer Shes Active this thing of travel the american woman will not put anything Over her head because of healthy hair a lot of times the question comes up How we designers feel about these women i feel romantically inclined toward them theres a difference with designer and seller of has a characteristic gesture when he talks standing under the proscenium of the Little stage where he displays himself and his he brings the Middle of his Index Finger up against the base of his nose As though he might be taking snuff or holding a scented it conveys the idea that John could be an 18th Century gentleman and not what he the Liberace of american his of a recalls the baroque of the Royal Louiss Crystal White Ostrich turbaned Black White Marble gilded double breasted Sphinx to use Bis phrase and in Gold and Coy and it was that he was not pleased by this evenings so he retreated into this Man who had started out in life hoping to be a psychoanalyst but who became a Hairdresser for Lack of Money to go to medical he said Little and watched Dot head hooped glasses on the end of her nose so she could see Over them for calling Linda Hodge wheres Nedda Are you in the same group Dot lining the models up for their ballroom appearance while they tightened last second earrings or endured one of Kenneths Little Guys giving their wigs final pulls with the Kenneth was obliged to do no More than watch they Are in different parts of the fashion he is the proprietor of the worlds Only five Storey Beauty shop everything from Pedi cures to wigs and swedish the manufacturer of his own just emerging line of and Dot works for Eleanor miss Lambert is the red Queen of the fashion As Public relations representative on Many of the Best known couture houses she new manages the mad Hatter Couturier Tea parties with press releases and pretty pictures of the merchandise during fashion press she lost one of fashions bes known tempers and was set to Bop the Washington Post Over the head with a starched Flamingo for the stories it has been running about the goings on Kenneth is past worrying about such he owes his Success to the fashion among his first customers were fashion editors who exchanged puffs for i Kenneth does not carry on like a hysterical opera Tenor or fulfil the other stereotypes attributed to people who curl the Jet sets if he wears his clothes just a touch too mod for a Stock broker he talks plainly about his new Wavy style people Are bored with straight weve had for a couple of years evidently bored Kenneth Points out straight hair accentuates the drooping flesh on older women i dont think fashion is All that says who is not one to tyrannize women into following the new York and Paris curly hair never was out in the rest of the there May have been a lot of hairdressers who thought what they were doing was straight hair but it people in this country Arent wearing Short skirts they by the time they Start the skirts will be column at left from top a Navy gab Ardine suit with epaulettes is lined with and has a red and White striped it is by Harry originally used White Wool for a two piece suit with Cluster pleated the jacket has two High set pockets and a band at Linen makes a Panhuis with hip length Over Blouse and Bel Bottom two piece outfit in or Ange lace has a Kimono top and Culotte sleeves and Hemline Ere column at Bel skirted gown of Black lace Over Gold has a mat Ching it is by Pauline Black and White Nylon Tricot is used for this Ruf fled Nightgown and match ing Brunch a natural knit mini dress is worn with match ing Short pants which show beneath the Oscar de la Renta Crea Ted the jewelled lace knee length cocktail worn with Blue crepe Blouse beaded at the Leon hustled his Brown envelope under his huffing and moving fast on the Street where other men with their Brown envelopes moved with rapidity in Winter air scented by the fumes from convoys of waging delivery trucks and the better smell of roasting chestnuts that Street vendors sell from baskets also containing bagels and onion the salesmen stopped each exchanging resigned and angry complaints about their the talk was of Joe the miniskirt King in the eight Dollar Zabner had scored a he they hammered to each gotten the third floor at Macys and he was checking meaning that the department store had Given Over a Section of their dress department to Zibners merchandise and that it was Selling Well so that he was cutting lots of Leon went up an elevator to see if he could sell his Friend Stanley who buys fabric for a Missy Knockoff that is a company that copies knocks off other Peoples designs for Young women everybody knocks off everybody in this declared explaining How the extravagances of haute couture Are modified and modulated until they reach the american look at said putting a dress he had bought in a department store for on a rack next to the Knockoff copy which will perhaps even in the same for weve lost sight of the we dont even know where it came he could Knockoff his dress until some body in Chinatown makes it a translation Chinatown is the 35th Street Section of the garment District where dresses costing to the manufacturer Are by Leon was at Macys peeking through the Junior not a dirty old but a Salesman for a House which has no High priced Market research there were other salesmen lurking in the if they came upon a checkout in a fabric like the ones they had in their Brown buy it and Rush off with it to somebody on their customer at Days Leon took a diet Pill and drank a cup of a sugared Coffee at chock full of then he got on the subway for the Bronx where his pregnant wife and child and where they have minature Golf courses that Leon plays As he to relax his this week at the fancy fashion models of sensuously perfect poundage showed dresses that Light gowns of inestimable and swim suits that were hardly More than Chiffon loin and Batik Fig but no togs for miniature nothing for the ;