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Brother & Sister. Businessman Boussac, whose Lyon-based textile empire consumes some 70% of all the cotton shipped into France, has a sharp eye for a winner. He backed Dress Designer Christian Dior, got a spectacular, moneymaking result: the New Look. Although he sometimes takes a calculated flier in both the textile and racing business, he prefers to leave little to luck and chance...
Paris Dressmaker Christian Dior, creator of 1947's now dead "New Look," announced that for the winter of 1950-51 well-dressed women would have the "Guitar Look": rounded shoulders, pinched waists, pleated hips-with the "doubly curved, but classical lines of the guitar...
...14th and F Streets, stands the nine-story building of Julius Garfinckel & Co. It is Washington's answer to the oft-repeated charge that the nation's capital is a town of dowdy women. In Gar-nnckel's show windows are strapless pink tulles by Dior, tobacco-colored satins by Path and organdies by Adrian. Last week Garfinckel's added another famed trademark to its collection: a crest with a lion rampant and a Pegasus, and the motto "Our words and deeds agree." It bought control of Manhattan's 65-year-old A. De Pinna...
...dictum from Paris by Dressmaker Christian ("New Look") Dior that next spring's newest New Look will ignore bare bosoms and the plunging neckline led the Washington Daily News to headline: Jane Russell Is Declared Obsolete...
...sale last week, Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat, with photographs and sketches of dresses by such big names as Dior, Fath and Paquin. What horrified Editor Snow was not the new geometric look, but the fact that it was in Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that the new styles were not to be released until Sept. 15. Editor Snow...