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...Paris meanwhile, strong-nerved Fashion Creator Gabrielle Chanel told her striking dressmakers that, as the shop under her management could not earn the pay they demanded, they had better run it themselves and she would stay on to help the new owners as an unpaid stylist. At this the strong-nerved strikers told Mme Chanel that what she needed was ''more capital," marched off to try to get it from the Socialist Treasury. On being refused, they marched back and formally refused to take Mme Chanel's shop off her hands, she then refusing to keep...
...blouse, bought by cinemactress Claire Windsor in 1925. Magnin's will take only lines that it can handle exclusively in its territory. One of its West Coast exclusives is Hattie Carnegie gowns. Magnin keeps a buyer in Paris to watch styles, purchase creations by Lanvin, Vionnet, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Molyneux...
...particular Stavisky's widow, handsome onetime Chanel Model Arlette Simon, protested during the trial that in 1926 he swore to her that he would "go straight." She vowed that she never doubted he had gone straight until after his death and the disclosure that he had swindled Frenchmen out of some...
...about myself any more. It is the children's future which concerns me. The court will decide my fate, and I pray that the jury will be kind and let me leave with my children to start a new life in America!" Parade of Innocents. Arlette Stavisky, onetime Chanel model and the mistress of the Great Swindler long before she was his wife, may never have been his confidante and accomplice, as the State now charges, but credulity was strained last week when the other 19 defendants sought to join her in a parade of injured innocents...
...party to this story. From the uncomfortable little flat where the nurse had been keeping them on her own savings, the children were driven to a hospital and there for a few hours they saw their mother, Arlette Stavisky. widow of France's most famed swindler, once Chanel's most beautiful model, propped up in bed with her leg in a most realistic bandage. The children could scarcely believe their eyes last week when Maman came home...