00:10This whole event was to help repair history.
00:13The Versailles 1973 event actually started in a very different way than it ended up.
00:18This idea, which at the time was absolutely crazy, to have five designers from New York
00:25competing with five designers from Paris.
00:30And it ended up being a battle, or that's what the press said it was,
00:36between the American and the French designers.
00:39It started out very low-key. There's a show that's going to happen in Paris and they're looking for models.
00:45Some people that were close to you didn't get selected to go, but the main girls got in.
00:50I never would have been there if it wasn't for Bill Watts.
00:52It was very, very important for everybody because everybody involved was put into the light in the best way, you
01:00know.
01:01The French had very elaborate sets. They had very complicated routines.
01:06It was electrifying. For all the stiffness of the French thing, the Americans got out there and just slammed them
01:14with this, just this raw energy.
01:16We moved it a little bit, a lot a bit, in an extraordinary amount, and it just took over everything.
01:23Something happened there that night, and the French were willing to admit it.
01:28American sportswear was something that had to be paid attention to.
01:34There are moments in history that changed the course of history.
01:39That was a moment in history that changed the course of fashion history.
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