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From Kooky to Effortless. Americans do still, of course, buy European haute couture. Their purchases account for 40% of the trade in the Paris couture houses. Since an original Balenciaga ball gown can cost $12,000, or a Chanel suit $2,200, pacesetters such as Mrs. William Paley and Jackie Kennedy also snap up the "line-for-line" copies available in the U.S. Manhattan Socialite Mrs. John Converse happily admits, "I love Ohrbach copies." She also likes American designers like Bill Blass and Mainbocher. Nowadays, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Loel Guinness and Mrs. Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt shop on both...
...last spring, claimed some. Alberto Fabiani in Rome the week before, recalled others. Even Patou's designer, Michel Goma, who brought waistlines up nearly under the arms, let the length vary from two inches above the knee to midcalf. The miniskirt? "Dégoütant," snapped Coco Chanel. "Now I know why men don't like women any more." And so Chanel stayed Chanel, with neatly fitted suits just covering the kneecap. Pierre Cardin dropped an inch, but was still airborne, two or three inches above the knee; Castillo showed dresses that fell just above the knee...
...concerts with various U.S. orchestras in the 1966-67 season, eight with the Houston Symphony. In two of the concerts, he will play the piano and conduct from the keyboard. He is also composing his first Broadway musical, Coco, about the life of 83-year-old Parisian Designer Coco Chanel, in which he is collaborating with Alan Jay Lerner. He has contracted with RCA Victor Red Seal to score either two pop or two jazz albums a year, and to do four conducting jobs a year...
Nothing Spartan. Having gone to so much trouble to get his daily flights to and from New York and Athens, Onassis was not about to offer spartan service. Besides such now routine frills as in-flight movies and nine-channel stereo, the planes feature stewardesses in Chanel-designed uniforms, dinners from Manhattan's "21" Club. With that and a $2,000,000 advertising campaign in the U.S., Olympic hopes to win away from TWA and Israel's El Al, its only competitors on the New York-Athens run, at least 30% of the 115,000 Americans who will...
...Chanel showing it is de rigueur for spectators to wear their own little Chanel suits out of loyalty to Coco. But no one told Barbra; she swept in to take her place beside Marlene Dietrich and Elsa Martinelli in a jaguar-skin suit and Homburg that had even the models gawking. How did she like the show? "Those girls at Cardin's," said the girl from Brooklyn, "they didn't have a thing under their dresses. I was embarrassed." And Paris haul couture? Barbra politely demurred: "Nice, but not for me." Privately, she declared: "It stinks...