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Sketch of 3 women wearing a sweater and skirt (or a sweaterdress), pants, turtleneck, and hip length outer jacket with scarf and cap, and another sweater and skirt. This is the cut out of the advertisement, and the copy reads, Investment clothes--Albert Nipon does a marvelous collage of colours in his Everywhere collection--with liberal helpings of ripened grapes, new wine and all the shadings of terra cotta. His medium is pure wool, cut into classic clothes that work for you every day and become collectors' items to rearrange into your wardrobe year after year. The text also includes the name of the store. On the front is written Fall 1975. �Albert Nipon (born 1927) is an American fashion designer and ladies-clothing manufacturer. . The line's popularity caught the fashion world by surprise and quickly made Nipon's Albert Nipon brand of clothing famous. Sales of Albert Nipon dresses reached US$60 million in 1984, and Nipon counted among his celebrity clients Rosalynn Carter, Mary Tyler Moore, Nancy Reagan and Barbara Walters. His Fall was as rapid as his rise; in 1984, he was indicted for tax evasion and bribery in an investigation of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Internal Revenue Service office and served time in a federal penitentiary. He was housed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a minimum security facility. � During the 20 months he was incarcerated, his company reportedly lost $15 million in revenues. However, the designer's career did not end with his conviction and incarceration. Sales initially rebounded with Nipon himself stating they could not ship clothing sufficiently fast to fill orders. The company declared bankruptcy in 1988. It was sold in 1988 to Leslie Fay Co., which allowed the Nipons to continue running the design business. Albert Nipon designs and fragrances continue to be available in dress shops and fashion boutiques around the world.�

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