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...Paris Designer Christian Dior brought fashion adventure to millions of U.S. women, and economic indigestion to many U.S. husbands, when he pioneered the sensationally long dresses of the New Look. Last week Designer Dior was tinkering with the hemline again, moving it in a different direction. While 250 fashion experts, most of them from the U.S., looked on questioningly, Dior mannequins glided into his showroom wearing new skirts of startling shortness, their hems raised to a height of 15 to 17 inches above the floor (present average: 12 to 14 inches...
...shortened hemline, like other Dior maneuvers, was an idea suddenly conceived. "Even the day before my collection opened," Dior said, "it was still undecided. But now, I'm just itching to pin up women's skirts." He called his new length the vivante (living) line-"a fashion for going out in the street." Although not as dramatic a break with tradition as the New Look, his vivante was spectacular enough to get rival Paris designers excited and make U.S. buyers tight-lipped and nervous, as they calculated the chances of its finding favor with the unpredictable girls back...
...grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, some 1,200 members of the garment industry crowded in for a look at the latest fashions from abroad. Among the 57 styles paraded across the stage were some from Europe's top designers-Dior, Fath, Balenciaga, Visconti. But the dress that brought the house down was "First Love," the product of an almost unknown Irish woman. Designed by Dublin's 32-year-old Sybil Connolly, it was a dazzling white ball gown made of gossamer-thin handkerchief linen. Sewn into 5,500 minuscule pleats and banded with...
Preview. In Paris, Couturier Christian Dior received this letter: "Please excuse me for bothering you, but I would like to know where you intend putting the pockets on your winter coats-signed, A Modest Pickpocket...
...edition of Who's Who included some newcomers. Among the entertainers: Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, John Wayne, Mario Lanza. In government: Perle Mesta and Mike Di Salle. In fashions: Christian Dior and Jacques Path. In the Manhattan saloon set: Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley...