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Reported Dead. Paul Poiret, 65, onetime dictator of fashion; in Paris. In 1898 he quit his job as umbrella salesman to design women's clothes, became the world's top-ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator...
Born. To Gene Tierney Cassini, 22, oriental-eyed cinemalulu; and Army Lieut. Oleg Cassini, 30, peacetime couturier, ex-husband of Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney: a daughter; in Washington. Weight: 3 lb. 2 oz.
France, however, was another story. As it had during many months of facile prophecy, the democratic world looked to France to provide the first mighty upset to Hitler's calculations. Did not France's spruce, civilized generals, packed with the lore of St. Cyr. command the smartest army...
Gilbert Adrian, who was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head dressmaker for 15 years and now has become simply Adrian, opened his divine new pink and blue couturier's salon in Beverly Hills last week at about the time that fighting men of the United Nations were raiding Dieppe...
Author Tabouis preferred the "taste" in Paris, where she was thrilled by a "wonderful party" given by famed Couturier Paul Poiret. "At the door, we were met by half-naked Negroes, draped in beautiful Persian silks and holding torches and yatagans. . . . Pink ibises were strutting about in the light of...