Word: cardinals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also new on the Manhattan scene is Maxim's, the legendary fin-de-siecle set piece on Paris' Rue Royale, now owned by Pierre Cardin. In the New York outpost, the semi-nouvelle French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris...
...beginning, there was Maxim's the restaurant, then Maxim's the yacht. Now there is Maxim's the luxury hotel, or, more properly, La Residence Maxim's. This latest addition to the Pierre Cardin collection boasts 39 suites, ranging in price from $1,000 to $5,000 a night and in style from belle epoque antiques to chrome-and-plastic modern. Cardin bought the mansion that was to become La Residence 18 months ago; it will open in early July...
Every aspect of the hotel's decoration, including the design of matching marble toilets and bidets, was personally supervised by the famed couturier. Since the hotel is located in Paris' posh eighth arrondissement not far from the official residence of the President of France, Cardin hopes that it will attract visiting diplomats and royalty...
...Pierre Cardin, 63, French designer, on an agreement to sell his clothes in the Soviet Union: "The Russian people now have a wonderful image. That is Madame Gorbachev, a ravishing woman who is the image of the trade I represent...
...Western suits instead of cash bonuses to deserving workers. The practice was soon officially dubbed one of the Eight New Evil Winds* and eventually banned by the government. But fashion is still coming on strong in Chinese life, at least in the big cities. "It's fantastic," says Pierre Cardin, as eleven Chinese models sashay up a Peking runway in black silk dresses made for him in Shanghai...