Word: bohan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drew a cautious curtain for a peep at the audience, were sometimes coaxed out to accept compliments, false or otherwise, and a chance at the champagne. "Darling," trilled Actress Melina (Never on Sunday) Mercouri, smashing her way through ranks of lesser spectators to get to Dior's Marc Bohan. "It was magnificent! Fantastic! Extraordinaire!" "No," said Bohan, pale but for the thousand carmine kiss marks on his cheeks, "I was not nervous, just a little worried." Said Mrs. Vreeland: "My dear, how really truly completely MARVELOUS...
House of Dior Couturier Marc Bohan puts the reverse culotte on everything from beach clothes to ball gowns, and makes slender tubes of evening dresses seem vaguely practical enough to go hiking in. German Model Brigitta Schmucker (see above) wears a silver-embroidered pale pink nylon net version...
...first success came five years ago (when he inherited the House of Dior on the master's death and inaugurated the trapeze line), had been out of the running for a while. Drafted into the French army for two years, he returned to Dior to find Designer Marc Bohan in his place. Paris divided on the issue, and St. Laurent had a nervous breakdown. Squaring his narrow shoulders, St. Laurent opened his own house last season to mixed notices. But this year, bravos came in salvos from the gilt chairs; the snouts of television cameras poked through tall, flowering...
...seamed skirt that whirls like a skater's costume. Hemlines stayed put. The buyers' favorites were Givenchy's high bustline, soft-shouldered dresses and Balenciaga's short shrug jackets. A hemstitch away in popularity: Yves St. Laurent's "cowboy look" (sombreros, neckerchiefs), and Marc Bohan's Dior evening gowns that plunge front and back. Copies, adaptations and custom reproductions will be ready in U.S. shops this month...
Most designers snugged in waistlines and billowed skirts, perhaps to allow freedom to Twist. Everybody had his say about hemlines: Laroche and Cardin lowered theirs; Dessès, Patou, Crahay. Goma and Bohan stayed within striking distance of the kneecap. Other touches: almost every designer stuck ruffles on his models, snapped wide belts around everything-even evening dresses (Balmain, who dresses Thailand's Queen Sirikit, belted a wedding gown). Apart from sex, the only other area of general agreement in Paris was color. Apricot was very big, followed by orange, yellow and the so-called sherbet colors...