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...With Cardin 's couture, a Great Leap Sexward
...wait! Things are changing. Thirty years after its Communist revolution, China may now be ready for the sexual revolution. If so, historians will undoubtedly hail an unreconstructed capitalist as point man in the Great Leap Sexward. The man, naturellement, is Pierre Cardin...
...Designer Cardin at 56 has attached his name to practical fantasies that can be worn, walked on, slept in, sat upon, munched, drunk, flown, pedaled or driven in 69 countries. His latest coup is an agreement to serve as exclusive consultant to China's embryonic fashion industry. The Parisian may have his haute couture models reproduced in China, where the workmanship is exquisite and cheap, creating a new export trade for the Middle Kingdom. If the contract works out, 10% of Cardin-Cathay will be reserved for sale inside China, which is probably wise, considering the fact that...
Nevertheless, the clothes to be shown in China will differ not a whit from the 200 designs paraded last week for Western buyers and fashion reporters at L'Es-pace Cardin in Paris...
...Intelligence Division, infiltrating organized crime syndicates in Boston, New Orleans and Detroit. He became a federal narcotics agent in 1969. He is believed to have posed as a gambler in the Bahamas, dropping federal money at the roulette wheels of Paradise Island. He liked to wear Cardin suits and Dior shirts. Acting under cover, he became the lover of the mistress of a French heroin ring boss, cracking a drug and counterfeit network extending from France to the U.S. and Canada. Working with New York City's Knapp Commission looking into police corruption, he helped convict an assistant district...