………………..I recently saw on YOUTUBE this clip of Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond singing “You Don’t Bring Me flowers Anymore”. It was a huge hit for both of them….an extremely successful duet…..They sang it at a 1978 Awards show that was on TV. I’m not sure what awards show it was, and from the clip you couldn’t tell. It may have been a Grammy Award show? I remember Barbra coming up to my and Donna’s studio at Anne Klein, and Donna and I helping her to select something to wear…..She wanted this draped cowl front top with huge shoulder pads, very fashionable at the time, and easy pants….that I had designed, but of course she had no idea which one of us designed it!!….We showed her many samples, but she kept coming back to this draped top and languid pant…..It was in this icy grey color silk georgette with rhinestones scattered all over…….Honestly, I did not like the color on her! With her skin color, her mousey hair color and her curly kinky hair style at the time [which I didn’t find flattering], I felt the grey washed her out…..I tried in a very subtle way to convince her that we would make it for her in any color she wanted, and I showed her swatches of other colors I thought would be more flattering and better on TV……..but…….Barbra gets what Barbra wants and she loved the grey…….so it was the grey she wore…..I still think, after all of these years that I was right! I would have preferred it in a soft white with the glistening rhinestones……Barbra and Neil were terrific together…..and in the end that’s all that counts……….I was still proud that Barbra was wearing my design, and to this day she has no idea it was mine!
