El Palacio de Hierro | 1973

Vogue US - September 1973

Oscar de la Renta

Disart

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SAKS FIFTH AVENUE - 1973 September Issue

Vogue US - September 1973

Adolfo

Bill Blass

Oscar de la Renta

Pat Sandler

Mollie Parnis

Chester Weinberg

P.M. - THE OPTIONS!

Vogue US - January 1978

Oscar de la Renta

John Anthony and Julio

Ungaro and Dior

Chloe

Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy

Chloe and Valentino

Photographed by Albert Watson

THE MODERN BEAT | ALL-OUT GLAMOUR AT NIGHT

Vogue US - September 1973

The New York Collections

Bill Blass

Pauline Trigere

Oscar de la Renta

Halston

Giorgio di Sant' Angelo

Geoffrey Beene

Scott Barrie

Photographed by Richard Avedon

DRESSING IN PIECES

"...the way everyone want to dress today.  Five pages of basics to collect now - the clothes you wear with the clothes you own...move around...keep for a long, long time...and never put away."

Vogue US - January 1974

"The new way to think about fashion is to think of collecting the best pieces of fashion: the best shirts, skirts, pants.  The best coat to put over everything else.  Even a dress today comes in pieces - a shirt or sweater with a skirt to match....These aren't your old-fashioned separates-y separates - not the little extras you throw into a wardrobe.  These clothes are the main event: basic, practical, modern fashion that never stops working for you - they pay their way."

Yves Saint Laurent

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta

Mollie Parnis 

Mollie Parnis

Photographed by Penn

HOUSE OF BREEZES - OSCAR AND FRANCOISE DE LA RENTA

"the spirit, the living, the upkeep - each a breeze"

Vogue US - January 1974

Oscar and Francoise de la Renta

Dominican Republic

"To us the luxury of having a beach house," says Francoise, "is to be able to walk barefoot into the living room and sit without worrying if your bathing suit is wet.  Everything costs the minimum, everything is replaceable and washable.  The only things here of value are antique Chinese porcelain fish (shown above) that we keep filled with flowers."

"We tried to keep to the colors of the island - no violent reds, blues, yellows."

"We decided a house on the sand, surrounded by blue water, should be cool and dim inside."

Anna with breakfast - fresh fruits, yucca pancakes - on a Dominican tray.

Photographed by Horst P. Horst