Fashion Week September 1967 - Page 2
 

 

 

(Huntington's wife): Mrs. Tony Franciosca: George Harrison (who reportedly will wear one of their outfits on the next Beatle album); The Byrds, Ala Raka (Ravi Shankar's tabla player) and a host of others.
     "We don't try to identify the celebrities," say the three young originators (husband and wife Kathy and Marc Warner, and partner vice Regalbuto)," we just leave them (movie stars wives, leading socialites) wearing our clothes all over town. Mrs. Hartford was seenwearing one of our Kurta's (Indian traditional garb) in Venice."
     THE IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE NEW MOVEMENT IS THAT IT DOESN'T FREAK-OUT; IT FREAKS IN.
     Instead of going underground and anti-establishment with acid, long hair, drugs the new movement goes far above ground trying to establish some contact with "The Supreme Being."
     Says Warner, "We opened the shop after reading "The Way of the Master" (an Indian book of religious philosophy currently making the best selling charts in colleges across the nation). We have a Guru in East India and we are now working in the shop, saving our money, so that we can go there and learn from him."
     "THIS IS NOT A FAD." says Warner. This is nothing like the old psychedelic scene. We are not interested in all that. This is a much more moral thing. Our clothes could never be called dirty, or immoral. They are the most covered-up that you can find. We are more interested in the inner experience."

 

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