Lauren Bacall’s Fashion Sense on View at FIT

NEW YORK — With her unmistakable style, raspy voice and Oscar-nominated career, Lauren Bacall could command any room she entered, so it’s fitting that film clips and photographs of the late actress have a similar effect on visitors at “Lauren Bacall: The Look,” which is on show at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Months before her death in August at the age of 89, Bacall had given the graduate studies-led concept an approving nod for what would be the first exhibition dedicated to her style and career. The show opens with a larger-than-life illustration of her based on a Richard Rutledge portrait of her, but it is her own voice in the 1968 CBS special “Bacall and the Boys” that underscores how ingrained the model-turned-actress was in the fashion scene. In the main gallery, a large screen plays a clip of the program, which was filmed in Paris to showcase fall collections from Pierre Cardin, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan and Emanuel Ungaro. Bacall takes viewers along on an atelier fitting, to a fashion show in a “packed-to-the-rafters” salon and on a short spin down a country road with Saint Laurent in his Rolls Royce convertible. But the

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