Word: balenciagas
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...being, after all, such a very sad time"). As with most of the Bay area's elite, Mrs. Rosekrans is devoted to the at-home dinner party, points with pride to the increased use of fish knives and finger bowls as table appointments. For clothes, she depends on Balenciaga and Simonetta & Fabiani for staples (gathered in the average three to six weeks every other year she spends on a European tour of salons), prefers Galanos and Norell among American designers. Mrs. Jose Cebrian, 32, is no less addicted to small, sit-down dinners held in her Nob Hill apartment...
...chef-d'oeuvre was his wife Annabel, 36, a former mannequin whose Balenciaga he had selected, and whose black hair he had cut in the style of a Spanish toreador...
...mild-mannered man, Norell, 64, collects French antiques, steers clear of the jet set, counts Lady Bird Johnson, Lena Home and Dinah Shore as steady patrons, Lauren Bacall, Carol Channing and Lee Remick as friends as well. Less dramatic than Balenciaga and less subtle than Givenchy, he is the only U.S. designer Paris couturiers admit to their league. Some go so far as to rank him with Dior. No other U.S. designer, in Paris' view, can make that claim...
...performance of Bellini's Norma, fist fights erupted, insults bounced be tween boxes, and the grandly helmeted Gardes Républicaines clanked into action. One bejeweled matron tore the glasses off a startled young man next to her; another dug her fingernails into her adversary's Balenciaga décolleté. Dress Designer Yves Saint Laurent dealt his neighbor a smart kick in the shins. Monaco's Princess Grace, along with Charlie Chaplin, his wife and his brood, fled for the exits. Aristotle Onassis and Rudolf Bing stayed on to applaud. The tumult raged for a full...
...numbers justify a popular saying: "Si elle lit elle lit Elle (If she reads, she reads Elle)." And so, of course, do all the arbiters, pace setters and proprietors of Parisian haute couture, the people whose very names spell female elegance around the world: Chanel, Givenchy, St. Laurent, Balenciaga, Dior, Courrèges. None of them stand higher in the world of high fashion than Hélène Gordon Lazareff, 56, the tiny, self-assured, golden-haired editor of Elle...