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…………………November 06 was a Holiday group. I always tried to get my Holiday clothes shown as early as they would let me, because the Holidays started with Thanksgiving…NOT CHRISTMAS! I wanted to make sure there was plenty of time to get them delivered….though I don’t remember deliveries then being the problem they are today. The first jacket at the lower left came right off my Anne Klein runway. That’s Christy Turlington, [at the height of her career], wearing the suit from my Anne Klein look book. The original fabric was again made from a company that made many of Chanel’s fabrics, but this time the company surprisingly was in Scotland. It was always fun to visit this particular mill. The outside looked like buildings you would expect to find in Scotland or something out of some old novel like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.  They were old stone buildings with sheep in the meadow….It was almost too bucolic….but once inside it was like Santa’s work shop. All of the different types of yarns….wool of all kinds, angoras, and mohair, and all the fancy yarns that were made by spinning different yarns together. Then there were the FANCIES…..the lurex and tinsel  yarns. I loved working with these men and women, and could listen to all of their accents…..much better than my NY accent. The fabric I used for AK had a high percentage of the tinsel yarn that made the fabric glitter…..Of course the fabric I used for Linea had a lot less tinsel in it, but still looked pretty good! I was able to use a nice rhinestone button in glass on the jacket and not a plastic one! The CAD indicates that there was also a solid skirt that went with the jackets, but I don’t remember the fabric]. The scoop neck stretch velvet top at the center top had bracelet length sleeves and went with the velvet skirt that had a fabulous wide border of large and small “dancing ” sequins with bugle beads. The dancing sequins had one hole at the edge so they weren’t sewn FLAT. They moved and fluttered when you walked…..and there were LOTS OF THEM!…[sometimes the descriptions on the sketches, like fabric suggestions, were changed in the process]……The last jacket at the upper right was very beautiful and had a somewhat period look because it buttoned high. It was in a beautiful rayon crushed velvet, and it had DTM satin trims…….The large round glass buttons had sun ray facets so they really glittered. It came in a beautiful deep MAGENTA ….a beautiful deep ROYAL PURPLE [a real purple not royal blue above] and BLACK………..the photos do the colors absolutely no justice.