……………….You may recall my tale of Barbra Streisand coming up to the Anne Klein Studio because she had seen beautiful CHENILLE SWEATERS and HATS that I designed in a recent VOGUE magazine…..She loved them and WANTED them under no certain terms. However, they were flammable, and we couldn’t sell them to her….She wasn’t hearing it, and after signing all kinds of releases we ended up just giving her what she wanted. That’s her wearing the hat and cardigan. She wore them in the 1979 movie “The Main Event” with Ryan O’Neil………Going back in time to 1978, Donna and I with four models did a cover shoot for Women’s Wear Daily for the 1978 Fall previews……In the center is a model named Beverly wearing the PURPLE CHENILLE SWEATER and matching CHENILLE HAT with a silk and wool challis floral print skirt in coordinating colors……That season Vogue photographed three or four of the sweaters, and this was one of the outfits they editorialized…….I just recently found this very old and very worn piece of newspaper I had badly stored away…..I thought it would be interesting to tie the stories together. I wish I had the pictures from Vogue. They must be in their archives. The sweaters were beautiful made from a very special Italian yarn that I had never seen before, and never used again!…….It was an extraordinary chenille…..too bad all of the sweaters and hats had to be destroyed……….except for the samples Barbra had.