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May 8, 2008 5:03 pm
“I’m retired, you know. So I don”t really do this type of thing anymore,” James Galanos said last night at FIT’s Fashion Design AAS Exhibit, sponsored by the Simms Foundation. “But Mr. Simms invited me, so here I am.” Galanos, who dressed Doug Simms’ mother, Marie, in the 1950’s and ’60’s, along with Betsy Bloomingdale, Diana Ross, and Nancy Reagan, took in a fashion show featuring his one-time client’s wardrobe (now part of the museum’s permanent collection) and assessed the graduates’ modern-day takes on his creations. “What they tried to do was show these students the quality of workmanship in my clothing,” Galanos noted. “Design-wise, I don’t see anything in this group that looks like anything of mine. However,” he added, “they’re very nicely done.” Since the majority of the beaded, tiered, and ruffled looks were fashioned with premieres and parties in mind, we asked Galanos whether he thought young Hollywood was getting it right. “I look at the red carpet—same bodies, same clothes, same hairdos. There’s no individuality, frankly.” And what about the average urbanite? “I just hope that young people today can get back to dressing and looking like something instead of just wearing blue jeans every day, all day long,” Galanos sighed. “They look messy. They just don’t know how to put it together anymore. But,” he conceded, “I’m an old-timer.”
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