Word: balmain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buttonhook, line and slinker, the Nazis bought the argument, let Paris' 60-odd dressmakers carry on business almost as usual. Among them: Lelong proteégeés Balmain and Dior...
...abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front door because "a commander must be seen by his troops." Nor has Norstad's youthful appetite for rest disappeared. Though he and Hawaii-born Isabelle Norstad, slim and chic in her Balmain gowns, cannot escape a hectic official social whirl, Norstad makes a ferocious effort to schedule two or three nights a week at home. He ducks off to Berchtesgaden for a weekend's fishing, plays golf when he has a chance, delights in his hi-fi set (Fairchild amplifier...
...Balmain's long, shapeless tubular evening dresses which 'engage the feet.' Also, his pure-white ermine skirt with a sweeping train-these sweeping things help, since there is a servant shortage...
...designer is Balenciaga." Son of a Spanish boat captain, 61-year-old Balenciaga refuses to admit the press to his showings, avoids all Paris society, appeals to women who like his austere, sculptural designs. Enormously respected by his fellow designers ("We all call Cristobal 'seigneur,' " says Pierre Balmain), Balenciaga usually scorns to institute a new "line" for every season, but last week he startled Paris by showing skirts cut off right at the knee, defying nearly every other designer's trend...
...claims the largest private clientele in all Paris is sturdy, bristle-haired Pierre Balmain, who is charming in several languages. Balmain numbers among his customers Actresses Vivien Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, many South American millionairesses. Some of his biggest customers are Italian designers, who reproduce his dresses for the Italian market. On Italian designers' claims to rival Paris, he is tart: "Their ambition is to design dinner and cocktail clothes, but their ability is to design sport clothes...