Word: fontana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high-fashion terminology, means marabou feathers and encrusted chiffon, sumptuous embroidery and lacy swansdown, and involves moonlight only as an adjective for blue and roses only if they bloom on fabrics instead of bushes. Fur and crocheted collars are conspicuous, as are capes: Eleanora Garnett smocks them for daytime, Fontana cuts them in satin and velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown with gold...
Clever fashion accessories include Fontana's shoes, which can be worn on either foot with equal comfort and no lack of style, Perrone's three-tiered gloves-additional sections of which can be buttoned on as the day grows more formal. But perhaps the greatest contribution to the three-day showings was made not by any one designer or even by the luminous Barberini background but by six giant pythons who gave their lives for the snakiest raincoat in fashion history...
...Emelio Fontana of Brazil, a member of the International Seminar, will play recordings of music from his country at the Recorded Music Hour in Matthews 5, Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Fontana will comment briefly about the program, which will include both classical and folk selections and recordings of percussion instruments unknown in this country...
California's Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy dismisses the movement. "In the past there have been movements of this sort, but they never did the church any good." But Seventh Day Baptist Paul Henry, a lawyer of Fontana, Calif., speaks for many of the "spirit-filled" when he says: "It's only my guess, but I think it may be an outpouring just before the termination of this...