Arts: My Night With Raquel

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Doonan My Night With Raquel Bombshell crashes Fashion Week! By Simon Doonan Posted Thursday, Feb 16, 2012, at 09:12 PM ET Raquel Welch is wearing a slinky tobacco-colored jersey dress by Michael Kors. Her petite torso is configured into an impressive hourglass shape. Gold, strappy Jimmy Choos adorn her coquettishly tiny tootsies. The pièce de résistance? The feline natural beauty of her face, still mesmerizing at 71. The pièce de la pièce de résistance? That perfectly fluffed wig. "What's this one called?" I ask with genuine enthusiasm. Like Raquel, I am big believer in wigs. I cannot understand why anyone would opt for painful plugs or time-wasting, budget-busting weaves and extensions when wigs are an option. As Raquel succinctly put it in her 2010 autobio Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, "with the aid of a wig, I have more versatility in my life, and so can you!" "This particular wig is called Spotlight," says Miss Welch, patting her man-made coiffure with obvious affection. Fabricated from heat-friendly synthetic hair, Spotlight is one of a multitude of fetching styles from Raquel Welch's hugely successful wig collection. Each model has a showbizzy name like Scene Stealer or Ovation. There is even a Callista Gingrich-esque style named Upstage. If you have even the slightest inclination to impersonate Callista next Halloween, then you would be well-advised to cough up the $340 now. Who knows how popular (or unpopular) that style might prove to be come October? Last Friday night, the three of us—Spotlight, Raquel, and I—headed onto the stage of the Lincoln Center Film Society to kick off ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Apple's Stock Price Just Topped $500. That's a Bargain. How Can You Get Mormons To Put You on Their Do-Not-Baptize List? You Know Who Had Good Ideas for Fighting Income Inequality? President Taft.	Advertisement
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