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Inside FashionUnrebellious Designer WinsBy EUGENIA SHEPPARDIf the annual Coty American Fashion Critics Awards are any kind of reliable forecast, fashion is forgetting words like kooky and amusing and remembering pretty.The first Winnie voted by the Award jury in two years, will go to an unrebellious designer for a change. The Winnie, a bronze statuette equivalent to the Hollywood Oscar, wasn’t given at all last yearbut special awards were madeto a group of bright youngtalents in the youth movement.With an evident change of heart this time the juiy of 80 newspaper and magazine editors has picked a young man whose clothes, as one member says, make every woman look the way she really wants to look. What’s more he was born on the Faubourg St. Honore in Paris and learned about fashion in some of the famous old Paris cou-Telephone 228-44181QABURLINGTON lt;N.C.) DAILY TlMES-NEWSFRIDAY, JULY 8, 1966: :*:• •' ■ • •: *? • . -vi$ ■ •?; ■ l‘:: •: • if*::* H i:• V 'f i■ f• .V:': ' '-C*. W • v: r;• ^■■ •: lt;j . *-*• :yy. t. # . 1*. .*.*,•!%; *•!!*•! • I •* * * * ;.*■ 1::: ? ®fxr;.Evening dress with double ostrich hem from the new fall collection of Dominic for Matty Talmaek. Dominic will receive a Winnie statuette, equivalent of the Hollywood Oscar, from the Coty American Fashion Critics jury next September.ture houses. His first job was with Marcel Rochas.The prize winner is Dominic Toubeix (pronounced Toobex). He has been with Matty Tal-mack of New York City for three years and is not only designer but vice president and secretary of the firm. “He says in clothes exactly what I think about fashion,” is the way Matty . Talmaek sums up Dominic and the collection.In Ms appearance Dominic, who is about 35, is the prototype of the successful young designer today. He looks like an intellectual, slim, mild-mannered and observant behind his horn rimmed glasses.Mild as he looks, though, Dominie has had his mad moments. Once, in Paris, he threw a rock through one of Lanvin’s big, side windows on Rue Boissy D’Anglas. He was working for Antonio del Cas-'tillo at the time. Castillo had just parted company with Lanvin and Dominic felt his boss had been treated unfairly. The rock was right there and he simply couldn’t resist.“I was walking along nicely and quietly in front of Maxim’s, when, the police came up and tapped me on the shoulder,” says Dominic.“They took me to the police station where I spent the, night. They released me the next morning.”Unless provoked, though, Dominic is quite shy and retiring. In Brooklyn Heights, he ' lives like a true Frenchman, whose house is always his castle. He collects books with fine bindings and does a bit of book binding himself. He prides himself on being a gourmet cook.Dominic’s fashions rate all those , adjectives like pure, simple and elegant. Eight now all the newspapers, andmagazines are fighting to photograph the silver lame caftan coat for hostesses that he made for the Matty Talmaek fall collection.He thinks the young fashions are great, but if there’s anything he hates, it’s the vulgar look of some of today’s clothes cut-outs. Ugh! Those cut - in halter necklines are cute, but no cut - outs around Dominic in his broken Freneh-English. The way • he pronounced it makes beach sound as if it were spelled b,i,t,e,h.Gloria Guinness is Ms ideal well - dressed woman, because she .has simplicity, but -a touch of arrogance, too, according to Dominic.To look interesting every woman ought to have a bit of arrogance, Dominic believes. It shows that she’s not just settling for what the designer gives her.“The most important thing is for a woman always to wear something personal,” Dominic says. “It must be something that doesn’t belong in any way to the designer.”Three other designers, who will step up on the stage of the auditorium in the Metropolitan Museum of Art next September 29 to receive Coty awards, point to the same kind of back - to - the classics mood on the part of the editor - jury. A return award to Rudi Gernreich implies that the first one had nothing to do with the famous topless swimsuit and that Rudi is even greater nowadays in his more conservative phase. A return award will go, too, to Geo Geoffrey Beene, famous for contemporary looking but very feminine clothes. ,A special -award will go to Kenneth Lane, to whom all of us are indebted. He has made costume jewelry fashionable again. His jewelry is so fashionable, in fact, that a whole new way to wear it has been born. Ken Lane is responsible for breaking down all the bar- ; riers and persuading women : to load themselves with Ms j charming fake bracelets and i pins, right along with the real thing from the jewelers.MAKE COOL COMFORT ACUSTOM...»»s m■ ■!»'** ijWITH THECUSTOMAIR CONDITIONERThermostatic operation Fingertip Top Rite controls Patented Air Door for wall to wall cooling.*1 ] 880FROMAflttlWWVWlO#CHRYSLERCORfKJflATT ONWayneMooneyhamHeating Cooling,inc.720 Chapel Hill RoadPhone 226-1642
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