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...Barbra in Paris...
...Your item on Barbra Streisand in the Paris salons [Feb. 11] proves again that knish flambe never will be crepe suzette...
Somehow the fizz was out of the champagne during Paris' fashion showings last week. Chanel showed suits, Grès had a tent-shaped evening gown, St. Laurent showed exaggerated sailor suits and transparent organza dresses. But after Rome, it all seemed flat until Barbra Streisand, Broadway's freewheeling funny girl, showed up on her first trip abroad to add some zing and zest to the proceedings...
...Chanel showing it is de rigueur for spectators to wear their own little Chanel suits out of loyalty to Coco. But no one told Barbra; she swept in to take her place beside Marlene Dietrich and Elsa Martinelli in a jaguar-skin suit and Homburg that had even the models gawking. How did she like the show? "Those girls at Cardin's," said the girl from Brooklyn, "they didn't have a thing under their dresses. I was embarrassed." And Paris haul couture? Barbra politely demurred: "Nice, but not for me." Privately, she declared: "It stinks...
Labeled Kookie. "If you'd asked my mother who Balenciaga was," said the other surprise winner, Broadway's Barbra Streisand, who showed up in eighth place,* "she would have thought it was a grocery store in Brooklyn." Nor had Barbra (TIME cover, April 10, 1964) got there by the Bendel route; she designs her own clothes-a golden sable coat with a middy collar, a green brocade suit of the same material as her bedroom walls and, for accessories, old beaded bags with real jewel clasps and new shoes with old buckles. The Couture Group liked it, cited...