Anjelica Huston's memoir A Story Lately Told is such a compulsive read, it's a surprise her name hasn't been coming up more lately. As a model in the '70s, Huston posed for a lot of the greats, Richard Avedon and David Bailey included, and she had a real sense of style. It was the glory days of American sportswear, and she was often snapped in a mannish jacket tossed casually over a shirtwaist dress, arm in arm with Jack Nicholson—effortless yet polished. Huston appeared in Max Mara's 1971 ad campaign, which gave the design team a good reason to return to the decade that is currently preoccupying much of Milan. The news was in the willowy silhouette, which paired covered-up, slightly blousy tops with mid-calf-length skirts, accessorized with stacked-heel knee-high boots and rain hats to match. Amid the busy black-and-white micro-floral and a too-bright naive watercolor print, the monochrome neutrals were the best fit for brand Max Mara. You couldn't go wrong with a neatly tailored camp shirt tucked into a suede wrap skirt in the same shade of icy gray. Double-breasted suit jackets had masculine proportions; they looked sharp juxtaposed not only with longish, lightweight skirts, but also with a pair of trim culottes. Bonus points for the casting. When Hollywood makes Huston's book into a movie, we know just who to play the starring role: Jamie Bochert, whose beauty is not unlike how Bailey once described Huston's: "dipped in darkness."
