Word: couturiere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already an established couturier, Rochas was twice her age, had been married and divorced twice. But he liked the shape of her head, he said. He signed her on for his fashion house, married her a few months later. Rochas did not care how Helene cooked or sewed-he had...
PARIS: A STORY OF HIGH FASHION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The secret and hysterical preparations behind a couturier's presentation, filmed at Pierre Cardin's salon as he got ready for his current collection. Color.
Unable to sing a note for three years, he became editor of the French edition of Vogue, and was so successful in the fashion world that in 1930 he opened his own salon. Mainbocher came to New York in 1939, where he profited by the wartime blackout of France as...
He ordered a Paris couturier to run up a wardrobe of cassocks, in colors from mauve to bottle green. He savored imported champagne by the case and constructed a luxury hotel; when asked how he financed it, he replied: "I am spending the savings of poor maman. She sold nuts...
Fortunately, the customers are, or sometimes are. Who wouldn't be amused at the sight of Funnyman Sellers flitting into a jewelry store disguised as Monsieur Jules, the famous French couturier. As the jeweler dials the combination of his safe, Monsieur makes movies of the process with a hidden...