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...Dean Rusk, recalling Nicole's brilliant seven-year social reign in the capital: "I imagine Washington will once again be called a hardship post." Nicole shed some sentimental tears herself, but she did brighten up the farewells with such things as her black-silver-and-white dress by Cardin. Before flying home, the Alphands said their last U.S. farewell at a private dinner with Jackie Kennedy...
...considered the Michelangelo of the trade. The master put his hostesses in white stretch pants under taupe chiffon or gold lamé topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...
...Then even they started worrying. This side of Kuala Lumpur, where on earth would anyone risk wearing it? As for Mme. Alphand, she allowed bravely that the multiplicity of look-alikes gave "a kick to the ball-in a nice way of course." But then she was wearing a Cardin polka-dot organza-on both shoulders...
Other designers' offerings ran true to form: Grės' intricate chiffons, Castillo's long slim crepes, Capucci's stiff white collars. Pierre Cardin still reigned as Lord High Poohbah of Limp, displayed a group of floppy fashions and judged the season's loveliest. But with the Big Three-St. Laurent, Balenciaga and Givenchy-still three weeks away from showtime, the season was less past than prelude. The shape of things to come may still be drastically altered-but so, of course, can dresses already ordered...
PARIS: A STORY OF HIGH FASHION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The secret and hysterical preparations behind a couturier's presentation, filmed at Pierre Cardin's salon as he got ready for his current collection. Color...