Word: crespi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with French cuffs. Another evening alternative is the Russian-style, high-collared rubashka (cossack shirt), which buttons up the side and is much favored by Colonel Serge Obolensky, the White Russian public relations man from Manhattan. Italian Jet Setter Count Rodolfo Crespi dresses up his rubashka with diamond studs. Frank Sinatra adds a gold medallion, suspended from a chain around his neck...
...power failed during one dinner than he ordered candles lit, soothing the party-goers with the assurance that candlelight was "far more romantic." By the end, the guests agreed that in all things great and small the planning had been perfect, the execution superb. "Fantastic!" exclaimed Countess Rodolfo Crespi as she departed. "So marvelous," cried Princess Luciana Pignatelli. "What fun," beamed Rebekah Harkness. As for Obolensky, he drew himself up to his full 6-ft. 3-in. height, then confessed: "I'm exhausted. Organizing all these beautiful women is tiring...
What makes his success all the more remarkable is that Valentino opened his salon in Rome only six years ago, after learning the trade from Jean Dessès and Guy Laroche in Paris. Says Valentino Customer Consuelo Crespi: "He went after the extravagant, luxurious woman, and what he wanted he got." First he got Jackie Kennedy by dedicating five evening gowns to her in 1961. She remains his most constant client, last year bought her pants suit from his collection. She often writes him long, glowing letters, has even been known to clap her hands, crying "Valentino, live...
...guest book reads like an international list for the guillotine," muttered Leo Lerman from Mademoiselle. In swarmed the jet-setters (Gloria Guinness, Lee Radziwill, Count and Countess Rudolfo Crespi, Mrs. John Barry Ryan III), the intellectuals (Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy, William Buckley), show-biz folk (Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Jerome Robbins), the writers (Edward Albee, Marianne Moore, Norman Mailer) and official Washington (Nicholas Katzenbach, John Sherman Cooper, Jacob Javits...
...once a leader of Rome society and her husband was an Italian-Brazilian count. But last year Count Marco Fabio Crespi, slipped off to Mexico and got himself a divorce so that he could marry a Brazilian banker's daughter. Insisting that she is still the real countess, statuesque Vivian Stokes Taylor Crespi, 39, whose son, Marc Antonio, 10, is a Newport playmate of Caroline Kennedy, finally managed to get her case to court. Docketed for trial in Manhattan this month is her suit to have herself declared the count's legal wife on the grounds that...