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...Whicker describes the world of Paris haute couture as glamorized by models "who can wear furs in August, swimsuits in December . . . and look snooty and deadpan even with sand in their shoes" in this bizarre peek at the citadel of high fashion. Interviews with Designers Gerard Picard and Pierre Balmain...
Ever since the Paris house of Balmain made her wedding dress 17 years ago, Thailand's Queen Sirikit has been true to the designer in her fashion. The results have been dazzling for both. For six years, the Queen was listed among the world's ten best-dressed women. For his part, Balmain now picks up about $500,000 in annual business from Sirikit, a fact that rankles the house of Dior deeply. Last week, when Sirikit and King Bhumibol paid a state visit to the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah Diba, Dior dispatched...
Died. John Harlin, 31, a onetime dress designer for Dior and Balmain and an Air Force polar survival expert who became a noted Alpinist and the first American to conquer two of the most dreaded Alps, the Matterhorn and the Eiger, via their treacherous north faces, opened a school in Switzerland specializing in direttissima, an innovation that ignores the traditional zigging and zagging around danger spots for a damn-the-obstacles, straight-up climb to the top; as a result of a 3,000-ft. fall during the first direttissima attempt on the Eiger, successfully completed by the rest...
...twelve-day Viet Nam tour, Actress Carroll Baker, 34, was feeling positively unfrocked. First she lost three suitcases with $7,000 worth of Lanvin gowns inside. After the show with Bob Hope at Chu Lai, the troops admired her $8,000 feathered and beaded Balmain so much that finally one G.I. came up, said Carroll, and murmured, " 'Gee, how about just one of those feathers?' I said O.K., and that started it." The boys "deplumed" her. Since the $7,000 Edith Head number "just disintegrated in the heat, mud and rain," the poor child didn't have...
Dernier Cri. Hollywood's hardest-working sex symbol showed up at Lanvin's salon, plopped herself down next to Nicole Alphand, wife of the French ambassador to Washington, and dazzled photographers, if not the fashion editors, with a hot-pink Balmain dress whose V-neck plunged to a demure bow set between her floating ribs. Carroll also displayed six inches of thigh, a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses, and aplomb...