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Coty Awards Given‘Oscar*Of FashionBy BERNADINE MORRIS New York Times News ServiceNEW YORK — It was the fashion industry’s big night out. After a day of creating, producing, promoting and purveying fashion, more than 700 industry leaders changed into their evening clothes and drew up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art one night last weekend 1o look at some moreclothes.Occasion was the annual presentation of the Coty American Fashion Critics’ award to the designers fashion editors voted for a few months earlier as having had the most significant effect on how American women dress.founded in 1949. He had spent 10 years as the assistant of Antonio del Castillo at Lanvin, the Paris couture house, but made the transition to Seventh Avenue with a minimum of trouble.Return awards went to Rudi Gernreich, the Californian who was bom in Vienna and has hardly been out of the news since he developed the topless bathing suit in 1964, and Geoffrey Beene, medical school dropout from Louisiana who has been a raging successsince he opened his own dress concern three years ago.The return awards take the form of silver medallions placed in the base of the Winnie previously received. A second return award, and the designer will be ushered into theHall of Famej a position nowoccupied by Norman Norell,James Galanos, Ben Zucker-man, Pauline Trigere and the late Claire McCardell.YOU'REto register in ourat Park all througl for a 50.00 g itoward a famous G4for your er a display of GittiiThis year, French, Viennese, Southern and Middle Western accents mingled on winners’row.Their fashion styles ranged from avant-garde Rudi Gernreich and Kenneth J. Lane to contemporary classic (Dominic and Geoffrey Beene).Dominic happened to be the star of the evening’s events, the 'ecipient of the “Winnie” for 1966. A small bronze statue designed by the late Malvina Hoffman, the Winnie is to the fashion world what the Oscar is to films.Dominic Toubeix — he never uses his last name professionally — received the award just three years after he joined the dress manufacturing concern Mrs. Talmack
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Mon, Oct 03, 1966
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