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“I’m showing no hats…the dresses didn’t warrant or need a hat. “What are you going to do? People are tired of brocade and velours coupe. “I didn’t find any novelty fabrics that I liked so we embroidered them to hell…had to make our own novelties. “THE COLLECTION IS MAINLY IN HEAVY SILK CREPES, WOOLENS AND A FEW NOVELTIES. “It’s funny…they didn’t sell so well before…but my girls loved them.

I’m opening the collection with narrow ones with long cardigans in contrast colors and matching sweaters. “I’m doing some pajamas…but less than before. Of course you could wear them away from home. Sometimes pajamas don’t look quite right and these dresses fill a need.

You need the excitement of glitter, like the shock of fireworks.

#Thing one thing two costume skin#

“Of course I will do some glitter, though the women might be disappointed that they aren’t skin tight. “I don’t know why……I still believe in short. “FOR EVENING…WELL, I’VE BEEN SCREAMING SHORT, AND I TURNED AROUND AND DID LONG. “Yes, even some Hong Kong slits in the skirts. “Many of the dresses have the same high band neck….sort of ‘delayed Hong Kong influence’….it runs through day and night. “I have only one coat shape in the collection…it’s sort of an ice-cream cone…a high band collar, small shoulders, narrow sleeves and a slight flare. So why should I do a lot of different ones and have trouble with the buyers? I made one I like…then I made some others that I didn’t like as well as the first one. They want something like Chanel’s successful little suits that don’t tax one. “What has disturbed women is the over-styling. A woman needs a suit…a nice, easy, no-tricks suit. “I DON’T THINK YOU CAN SAY THE SUIT IS DEAD. “Oh well….…a woman has to have one black dress…I’m doing no more than one or two. “I’m afraid the black dress has bit the dust…John Moore is the only one who can still do it…one after the other…but he cuts and drapes them so beautifully. It’s going to be rough on the ladies…they’ll have to have more clothes. “My color statement this time is quite bold. You remember when the boys came to Halloran Hospital during the war?…They were put into bright red pajamas.

‘I’M DOING MUCH MORE COLOR THAN I’VE EVER DONE…two or three or even four strong colors in one costume…perhaps a strong-color coat over a light dress…or a light coat over a dark dress. “I have some straight and narrow shapes…some loose…in the collection. A belt requires a small waist and who has a small waist today? “You can’t suddenly change that…women are all for comfort…they don’t want to be cinched. “AS FOR THE SHAPE, AMERICA AS A WHOLE IS JUST GETTING USED TO THE NO-WAIST DRESS. I see no reason for longer skirts…no reason in the world to lengthen skirts for a long time to come. Only when it gets way down mid-calf will it be news. “I can hear it now….Paris will make headlines…an inch or a half inch. “It’s a knee length thing now…ours will be short. “It’s a very healthy thing that women decide what they want. “I’M BORED AS HELL WITH SKIRT LENGTHS…it all depends on the woman. Even a young dress in a size 18 gets automatically older. That’s why the whole woman’s dress business collapsed. You design a so-called woman’s dress and make it a size 8 and it’s still an old dress. “We won’t go back to dowdy, old lady clothes. With the youth bit, Paris is not with it…it comes from London and New York. “Youth can be elegant…youth still has the influence…and that is where the influence will remain…and I don’t think that comes from Paris at all. “THIS TALK OF A RETURN TO ELEGANCE IS A LOAD OF BALONEY. “ALL FASHION NOT COMING FROM PARIS IS COMING FROM LONDON, AND NEW YORK. “I’m having no private clients…never do…This is a business thing, not a social affair. It’s time to junk all that gimmicky stuff. People have overdone the presentation of fashion. “THIS COLLECTION IS GOING TO BE SHOWN STRAIGHT. He is wearing his patriotic blue suit with red tie and blue and white striped shirt. No temperament or wan looks, though the workmen have spilled ochre paint on the carpet and there’s no time to have a new one. Norman exudes confidence…admits everything is not completely finished. No hint of frantic last-minute fittings behind closed doors. Issey Miyake Dies at 84: A Look Back at the Designer’s Career