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...single designer speaks for the American look. None of the Americans, for example, as cunningly and consistently divines what women crave as France's Yves St. Laurent; none shows the innovative brilliance of such younger Parisian stars as Japanese-born Kenzo Takada. Fashion historians will probably look back not on any individual but on American designer-entrepreneurs in general as the School of the '70s-and a very savvy school at that...
Even Paris-based Kenzo Takada, whose Chinese-inspired collection helped start fashion's current Orient Express rolling last spring, concentrated at first on supple, sensuous clothes with a low hip line. The Japanese-born Kenzo noted that his styles "had affinities with the Chinese look, so we carried on the Chinese line." Among the first U.S. designers to introduce proletarian posh was Cinnamon Wear's Britta, whose workers' drop-shouldered jackets and raincoats flopped like wet rice when they came out last year; now the firm has trouble keeping up with demand...
...first big promotional step was getting Women's Wear Daily involved in Gatsby as a fashion goal for the 1973-74 season. It is doubtful that Paramount choreographed Designer Kenzo Takada's Paris show in October 1972, but the appearance of Kenzo's V-necked, red-and-blue bordered tennis sweaters and boxy white flannel pants was deftly followed by the announcement that the film was going to be made. Women's Wear Daily promptly translated Paris' le style tennis as "the Gatsby look," and the fashion publicity fairly snowed. It was a case...
Judging by the size of the crowds they attracted, the two biggest stars to emerge from last week's shows were Chloe Designer Karl Lagerfeld and Japanese Designer Kenzo Takada. People literally climbed into the windows of the Laurent restaurant on the Champs-Elysees to peek at Lagerfeld's collection, which emphasizes the elegant and the demure. His soft shirts with high, pointed collars peek out from under dresses and loose turtleneck sweaters. Tweedy vests and jackets were another variation. Lagerfeld also introduced an even more elaborate version of the layered look, with shirts worn one atop...
...current concentration on Fitzgeraldiana seems to have begun in a big way last summer with Paris Designer Kenzo Takada's revival of the classic V-neck, red-and-blue-bordered tennis sweater. It was an instant hit, and Kenzo's spring '73 collection expanded on the tennis theme in earnest...