Word: couturier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yamamoto, 39, spent a little time in Paris during the late 1960s, absorbing European influences and watching the growing impact of his countryman Kenzo Takada, 43, on the insular enclave of French fashion. The whimsically heretical Kenzo and the silkenly elegant haute couturière Hanae Mori, 57, were the first Japanese designers to have any visibility or impact outside their own country, and both had to leave home and establish bases of operation in Paris or New York City to do it. Japanese fashion was not a force then. It was really more like a curiosity, and Yamamoto returned...
Since her death in 1971 , six attempts to make a film about Coco Chanel, the fabled French couturière, have come unraveled. For the seventh, Producer Larry Spangler "looked at every conceivable actress," he says. "But the minute I met Marie-France Pisier, I knew I had met Coco. She is tough, charming, aggressive, ambitious, revolutionary, bright." Especially bright. Pisier has a master's degree from the Paris Law School and virtually a Ph.D. in Chanelology. Says the actress, who starred in Cousin Cousine (1975) and The Other Side of Midnight (1977): "I have read every possible book...