Thu, 02 Apr 1998

Calvin Klein or Gucci?

I enjoyed your two full pages on the Academy Award presentation on Wednesday, March 25. The article by Andrea Orr Taste prevails over gloss in Oscar fashion stake and one by Sue Zeidler, Helen Hunt, the waitress, takes home Oscar for best actress, covered two different aspects of the event. These articles also carried two different designers for the same evening gown worn by the best actress. It was Calvin Klein in Andrea Orr's article and Gucci in Sue Zeidler's article.

The issue here is not whether it was a Calvin Klein or a Gucci. The point is that The Jakarta Post readers deserve accurate information. I do not have any particular interest in who designed Ms. Hunt's evening gown; my concern is that this conflicting information is annoying to some "obsessive" readers who praise "correctness" in a press report. There is also a chance that I was wrong, the gown might have been designed by both designers, but I do not have the information from the two articles to judge if this is true.

IZHAR M. FIHIR

Jakarta