PERFORMANCE.(Brief Article)

From 1975, Hendrik Hertzberg on the Rolling Stones at the Garden

One afternoon last month, Mick Jagger was standing in front of a full-length mirror in a windowless room in downtown Toronto, plucking at the cloth of a pair of narrow black satin pants that had been made for him by Hedi Slimane, the designer at Christian Dior Homme, in Paris. "They're a bit, a bit--for want of a better word--feminine," Jagger said, in the over-enunciated, borderline-camp accent that honors distant roots in post-war British show business: a world of variety acts and Soho drag queens. Looking at the pants from one angle and then another, he said, "They're all right to wear for ...