In the summer of 1958, the sleek, modernist Statler Hilton in Dallas hosted the presentation of the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award, an annual prize created by the department-store president Stanley Marcus and his aunt Carrie Marcus Neiman.Onstage that day were Yves Saint Laurent, fresh from the creation of his Trapeze line, which freed the waist; the children's couturier Helen Lee, known for bright, poofy girls' dresses; and a rather standoffish Danish housewares designer named Jens Quistgaard, plucked from the remote island where he lived, wearing antiquated knickerbockers and sailor's shoes.
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