Word: couturier
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...grant from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn an honest penny." He remained in Paris until last year, managed to live in a canary-yellow-walled apartment, had his clothes made by Couturière Lanvin, ate (and cooked) exquisite little dinners, went to bed for days at a time when he felt bored. He still calls Paris his home...
Engaged. Marisa ("Gogo") Schiaparelli, 21, beauteous, blue-eyed daughter of Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli; and Robert Berenson, 27, Grace Line travel executive, second cousin of famed expatriate Art Critic Bernard Berenson; in Manhattan...
Since France's fall, chief debate in the $1,000,000,000 U. S. dress industry is whether U. S. designers can do the job that trend-dictating P'aris once did for it (TIME, Aug. 19). For three months Paris Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli has barnstormed the U. S. talking fashions under the auspices of CBS's Columbia Artists, Inc. She also had a profitable sideline in selling her tour wardrobe designs to U. S. dress manufacturers (at $600 apiece plus 7% of the sales). By last week, as she was preparing to Clipper back...