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If that’s the gold butterfly gowns, those were created in the summer of ‘68 by Michael Travis. The girls really weren’t involved in the design of their gowns. Mr. Travis told me “Whatever I designed, they took.” Also the Oscars celebrating the films of 1968 was held April 12, 1969, so there’s no way they were ripping off her. The girls were trendsetters so I doubt they were looking to Aretha for fashion. If anything it was the other way around. In fact, there was a set of gowns that both the girls and Aretha had that were exactly the same but those were store bought.
Aretha's book is full of timeline errors, as most biographies are. Her co-writer David Ritz said that she kept him from working on the final edit, which could account for some of them.