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While two fashion greats, Balenciaga and Givenchy, are still to be heard from, there is little even they can do to temper the new S-shape. But when the conventional alphabet is exhausted, tomorrow's woman may very well look like a la mode...
Died. Carmel Snow, 73, petite, peppery editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1932 to 1957, who helped spread the fame of Dior, Balenciaga and Chanel, won decorations from the French and Italian governments for popularizing their fashion industries; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Their great, last-fling romance is unintentionally amusing since the high spots all seem to be haute couture and haute cuisine. She orders a batch of gowns from Balenciaga. He orders Dom Perignon 1934 and Chateau Lafite 1937 and takes her to dinner at Le Grand Vefour in Paris and other three-star restaurants in the Guide Michelin. When they look up from the menus, the lovers philosophize, ques-tion-and-answer fashion. She: "What are we, the bulls or the matadors?" He: "Always the bulls. But we think we're the matadors." As the lovers' time together...
...makes her own clothes. Born in Shanghai of a Portuguese father and a Siamese mother, China Machado, now 25, worked her way around the world as a Pan Am stewardess and cinemactress, became the top mannequin for Givenchy in Paris at age 21. Also modeling for Simonetta, Fabiani and Balenciaga, she was finally coaxed to the U.S. in 1958 by Oleg Cassini. But for all her experience on haute couture's most exalted runways, last week's star billing at Macy's left China all but speechless in each of her seven languages. As yet unaccustomed...
...bride went to the throne room of the Palace of Brussels for the civil-marriage ceremony prescribed by Belgian law. An estimated 150 million watched the pageant on a Europe-wide TV hookup. Fabiola was nervous. When the 20-foot train of her mink-trimmed wedding gown (designed by Balenciaga and executed in his own Madrid apartment with all the secrecy of a new-car prototype in Detroit) caught on a chair, she came close to tears. Proud and protective in his lieutenant general's uniform, Baudouin leaned over to whisper a soothing word, and soon the royal couple...