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Defending Renoir's estate were his two sons, Cinema Director Jean (La Grande Illusion) and Ceramist Coco, and his grandson, Cameraman Claude. They contended that the Spaniard was merely a competent craftsman. "For there to be true co-authorship," argued the Renoirs' attorneys, "the law insists upon common inspiration and mutual control. Obviously in this case there was neither." Besides, the lawyers said, Guino has already received something of an added bonus-the family sponsored his career long after Renoir's death and even commissioned him to do a bust for the grave...
...world lost some of its sheen last week at the news that the House of Balenciaga is closing. Some said he is simply bored; others claimed that his disdain for "commercialism" and contemporary styles had caused business to decline. Whatever the reason, it does not diminish the loss. Said Coco Chanel: "The others are drafts men or copyists, or else they are inspired people, even geniuses, but Balenciaga alone is a couturier. He is the only one who can design, cut, put together and sew a gown entirely alone...
...around to starring Katharine Hepburn, 60, in a musical-possibly for the same reason that no composer has yet written a concerto for duck call. Now the oversight is to be remedied in sensational fashion. Kate has been signed for the title role in next season's Coco, an oversized Broadway musical about Couturiere Coco Chanel that will have a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Andre Previn, and a tab of $500,000. The musical, gestating since 1959, was supposed to star Rosalind Russell, but she got entangled in movie commitments...
Like all revolutions, it began, as Coco Chanel acidly observes, "in the streets." Once, styles trickled down from a handful of wealthy and conservative women whose clothes were made to order by entrenched French designers. Being chic was the objective, but always in a dignified and ladylike way. Now youth is in command, and it is the college and young career girls who make the mode. What Actress Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the Ten Best-Dressed Women combined...
...Paraphanalia so hot? "These clothes are really made for Cambridge. They aren't designed by elderly Coco Chanels...