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………………These are the opening pages of my…..Last Spring Look Book for Anne Klein………….featuring Christy Turlington……………Christy is wearing a fine textured SILK/LYCRA unitard with a fine woven waffle weave textured wrap skirt made with the same SILK/LYCRA yarns……She’ wearing a wide contour brown leather belt, wide leather cuffs and large leather hoop earrings….It was also my NATIONAL AD…………..Christy was gorgeous!

………………….This is a series of two dresses, right and left, and a top and skirt, center. The fabric was both a solid silk and rayon velvet, and a crushed silk/rayon velvet with a paisley design. The bias slip dress to the left had a matching shawl with hand applied and knotted long fringe…..The center sketch is a solid velvet top with shear stretch illusion, over a crushed velvet bias paisley patterned skirt…..and the dress to the right was the plain velvet midi sheath with an illusion top….I NEVER put front armholes in the stretch illusion….but there was a back armhole from the shoulder seam to the underarm seam. This construction kept the front clean and smooth, and the back armhole prevented any extra fabric from puckering and kept it all close fitting…….These dresses were done for Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Holt Renfrew in Canada

………………..CHRISTY TURLINGTON………is one of my all time favorite models!….Her soft voice matched her personality…..After all the years we worked together I never saw her get ruffled….always kind….always composed….Christy did many of my shows, and I hired her many times for “Look Books”, and “National Ads”…….Christy has a beauty that is hard to define….A lot of her beauty came from within……….Her face had a fragility to it that few possess…..If you wanted her to be the girl next door without any make up….she was perfection…..she was the one all teenage boys wanted as their girlfriend, but thought they could never have….She became a chameleon, and could take on any role you wanted her to play….A 20’s vamp…..a high society lady…..an odalisque from a Matisse painting…………no problem…….Christy was….and still is a natural….one of the few SUPERMODELS still working today……Beautiful on the outside…definitely…..but she I’m sure she would like to be know more for her charitable work, and the causes she fights for every day…..Though we lost contact many years ago…..I see her on talk shows and on the current runways…….Christy is so much more than a SUPERMODEL…………….she’s a SUPER PERSON!

……………….I was very happy and proud to see the picture of Christy from one of my National Ads on the cover of “AMERICAN FASHION”!

………..Last night………….In an exciting, nail biting 10th inning with two outs and Soto facing two strikes……..SOTO …….hits a 3 run home run to advance the Yankees 5 to 2 over Cleveland!!!!……and WEAVER…the Yankee’s closer finished the job in glorious fashion!….Previously, Stanton hit a home run to tie the score 2 to 2, and Judge did his share too by getting on base….”THE THRILL OF VICTORY, and the AGONY OF DEFEAT”…..Now, the Yankees are in the WORLD SERIES!!!!!…..which they haven’t been in since 2009!!!!!……………GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!