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...best advertisements for Thailand's soft, nubby silk cloth is the country's delicately beautiful Queen Sirikit, who has her gowns designed by Balmain. Thai silk is also used lavishly by other high-fashion designers such as Pauline Trigère, Anne Fogarty, Tina Leser and Adele Simpson. Lately the Thais have taken to producing their own dresses and sportswear, and have not only made Bangkok into a much-copied fashion center but also created a flourishing business...
...overwhelming factor, climbed almost 5%, farm production 7%, manufacturing 11%, mining 25%, and construction a spectacular 75%. As the focus of the boom, Caracas is beginning to look like a Monopoly board near the end of a hot game. On Avenida Francisco Miranda, the Caracas branches of Balmain and Cartier, once exclusive hangouts for Venezuela's big rich, now thrive on a growing middle-class trade...
Delon keeps his head, and, momentarily out of peril, goes to work as chauffeur for a sleek, wealthy young widow (Lola Albright) and her nubile cousin (Jane Fonda). In their Italianate castle, practically everything is extraordinary. The cousin pretends to be the maid, although she wears Balmain originals. The widow talks to her mirror, and with reason. Behind its one-way glass dwells a former chauffeur, Vincent, missing since he murdered her husband two years earlier. Delon, who serves his employer unstintingly up to a point, eventually balks. "You and Vincent want to kill me," he whispers, embracing...
...week's end something less than absolute. Hems stayed mid-knee, shapes kept narrow, colors vivid. Though Designer Capucci offered something called "the Peking Look," and Dior presented a wide-armhole, blousy sleeve, hardly anything was really brand-new. There we're flowers on everything-Balmain cinched the waist of an evening gown with green satin leaves. Saint-Laurent flung lilies of the valley onto everything from formals to hats. The results, while not revolutionary, were some of the handsomest clothes in years...
Having toured the U.S. women's club lecture loop, British-born Ginette Spanier, directrice of Paris' Balmain fashion house, had a few words about American women yearning to be chic. "American women are so frightened about doing the wrong thing," she said, "and sometimes you can't blame them. There are so many fashion writers in America now that the poor dears are absolutely battered by waves of instructions. That's why when I speak to them, they seem to feel they're getting the God's honest truth. And they ask the most...