Word: cardinization
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...Pierre Cardin is one of Paris' most creative couturiers, famous as the man who eight years ago first put models in crash helmets, two years ago matched short skirts with stockings and slashed the décolletages. Nicole Alphand was known as Washington's hostess par excellence in the Kennedy era, famed for her charm, elegance and political savvy (TIME cover, Nov. 22, 1963). Together they are proving an unbeatable team...
Despite raised eyebrows at the Quai d'Orsay, Nicole announced her appointment as Cardin's publicity director soon after Husband Herve Alphand was recalled from his post as French ambassador. Explained Nicole, who has been on the International Best-Dressed List for six years: "It is time that someone did something for Frenchwomen. One should give them the possibility, even on a small budget, to have the stamp of a great couturier...
...branch out in male fashions as well, two years ago began producing a full line of custom and ready-to-wear men's clothes. His men's fashions now gross $8,000,000 a year, five times the gross of his women's line. Among Cardin's customers: Gregory Peck, Cecil Beaton, Yul Brynner and George Hamilton...
Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...
...second Diefenbaker minister to admit he knew Gerda. Though it looked as if the Liberals would nail her as a "security risk" for her various unsavory associations in the past, it seemed less and less likely that she would turn out to be any sort of Mata Hari, as Cardin had darkly suggested. The files of West German intelligence agencies turned up not the slightest shred of evidence that she had worked for the East. And in CBC radio and TV interviews, the heavily mascaraed East German refugee made it abundantly clear that there was no love lost between...