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New fashion museum exhibit documents Lauren Bacall: The Look

NEW YORK (AP) — On stage, screen and magazine covers, Lauren Bacall was known as "The Look," but in her regular life, the late icon described her style as "studied carelessness." [...] more than six months after her death, student curators at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology have managed to capture both sides of Bacall in an intimate new exhibit that runs through April 4. [...] they used clips from a TV show she hosted, interviews and archival photos, covers and sketches to accompany about a dozen looks from her professional costume wardrobe and her personal one. The exhibit, which opened Tuesday, includes three looks she wore that night, including a fuchsia pink mini-dress by Cardin with a molded pyramid design in a fabric he invented and dubbed Cardine. Wide-mouthed, with a deep deadeye voice — sounding sexy and faintly mad-at-someone, Lauren Bacall looks the way most American women yearn to look; the way that stops men — American and otherwise — smack in their tracks. Bacall's first big moment with love Humphrey Bogart on screen in "To Have and Have Not" is also represented, in publicity photos of Bacall promoting the 1944 film in which she plays sexy lounge singer and World War II French resistance sympathizer Marie "Slim" Browning.

 

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