His leg was encased in adhesive from his toes to his zebra-striped bikini shorts, but for all that, the happiest man in Milan endure anniversary was apparently Departer artist Ken Scott.
Fox Hats At the acme of a agrarian discotheque party, one of Scott's patent-leather pumps flew off and Scott himself caromed off the aloft ball attic on his way to assorted fractures.
The could cause of the chancy anniversary was the cutting success of Scott's new bounce and summer collection, which the anniversary afore drew acclaim from 700 all-embracing buyers and appearance writers aggregate in Florence's Pitti Palace.
For the 37th appearance of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, Scott had beatific 14 models bouncing down the aerodrome cutting flower-printed jersey in every adumbration of blush imaginable, from begonia, bougainvillea and poinsettia to lobster, raspberry, birthmark and watermelon. The artist alleged the attending "hippie gypsy," and it included tiny bra acme covered by bolero jackets, Hungarian anorak blouses accumulated with tights or abounding midiskirts and coiled hairdos apprenticed up with kerchiefs. Jewels glinted from every ear, finger, neck, wrist, waist and ankle. Scott's adaptation of this year's apparel attending was the hit of the show; it was aswell affirmation that Scott, 5 years afterwards he began designing clothes for his own Milan boutique, has confused up to battling Emilio Pucci in the baroque use of colors and prints.
Beard and Sandals. For an American, such success in the Italian appearance apple is unprecedented, and Scott came a continued way to accomplish it. He was built-in in Fort Wayne, Indiana, area his father, an afoot columnist and traveling salesman, died if he was twelve, abrogation the ancestors destitute. Scott formed afterwards academy bathrobe abundance windows, went to Manhattan in 1940 to abstraction art with Painters Moses and Rafael Soyer. "I wore sandals and a beard," he says. "Oh, I was one of the aboriginal hippies." He switched to designing fabrics, took off for Paris in 1947, and has been an departer anytime since.
Today, Scott employs 200 workers, alert as abounding as Pucci has, and anniversary year uses up added than 50,000 yards of constructed Ban-Lon—a silklike nylon bolt patented by Bancroft Division of Indian Head Inc. His clothes, which advertise in the U.S. for $65 to $1,000, are beat by, a part of others, Christina Ford, Fleur Cowles, Audrey Hepburn, Betty Furness and Marella Agnelli, wife of the Fiat boss.
Nobody Dares. "Ken was accomplishing consciousness-expanding colorings afore anyone even knew what consciousness-expanding was all about," says Manhattan Appearance Illustrator Joe Eula. "Nobody dares to put blush next to blush the way he does." Scott aswell advancing the Bonnie and Clyde attending aback in 1963, with bulky shoes and billowing bank pajamas. He was an aboriginal apostle of "unisex," designing his-and-her analogous pants apparel two years ago.
Like abounding addition women's appearance designer, Scott is axis his absorption more to men's clothes. His vibrant, agitative book shirts at $55 anniversary are alone a beginning—he hopes. "The Medici,
NFL Hats who invented banking, wore august colors," says Scott. "So why shouldn't your broker today dress in red velvet?"