Word: cossack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Courrèges, a skirt and blouse combination laden with ruffles. For most of high fashion's critics, clients, and trend watchers, the week's main feature was the Saint Laurent collection. Paris' No. 1 designer, who launched the costume revolution with his Russian, gypsy, Cossack fashions of 1976, had presaged a return to modernity with his ready-to-wear show last October. "There is no more revolution," observed Madame Ida, the maestro's longtime aide. "This is evolution...
Rickety pre-war Dodges and Oldsmobiles traveled together with Russian tanks, cannon and the deadly Katyusha rocket launchers, incongruously accompanied by Cossack cavalrymen thrown into battle in their czarist uniforms...
...saucy wit. Everything depends on the two leads. In his jealous anxiety, Bedford can twitch his nose like a mouse scenting cheese. He affects a synthetic Russian accent that is weirdly comic and as the disguised suitor, he woos his wife with the ardor of a drawing-room Cossack...
Sometimes Degas takes this fascination with linear tension produced by common movements a bit too far, though. In "The Bow," he leaves his subject in such a low-squatting curtsey, her right leg extended stiffly like a dancing cossack, that given one brief moment brought to life, she seems sure to capsize and fracture her coccyx...
Unlike most fashions that women wear today, the romantic new Cossack-gypsy-Indian-Moroccan all-purpose paisana-princess image-the YSLook -is a deliberate assertion, a statement. It says, in the words of a Washington fashion setter who was in Paris last week, "Aren't I simply devastatingly dazzling!" It is not, at from $2,000 to $10,000 per outfit, for humble folks. Saint Laurent has used with theatrical abandon the old luxurious, tactile fabrics: satin, gold and silver lame, silk faille, velvet, taffeta, chiffon, chenille, mousseline and moire. The materials, fashioned into 106 outfits for Saint Laurent...