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Come fashion-show time, Japanese publications feed consumers at home blow-by-blow reports of the trendy items worn by Western fashion editors. Outside the Christian Dior show, a black, chauffeur-driven Mercedes pulls up to the curb. As the door opens, a flock of Japanese photographers (mostly male) and reporters (mostly female) gathers around the sassy blonde passenger, dressed in stripes and wearing sneaker-styled stilettos. This is not Kate Moss or Gwyneth Paltrow. This is Emer Paul, fashion editor of U.K. Glamour. "Can we get your picture please?" someone asks. Before she can reply, the photographers begin snapping...
...Hollywood experience told him would stand out in photographs. She also patronized American clothiers who made licensed copies of French fashions. The red wool dress she wore for her television tour of the White House in 1962 was a line-for-line replica of a Marc Bohan dress for Dior. All the while, she continued to buy the occasional real thing from France. Even the pink suit she wore on the final day in Dallas, which is not in the show, was by Chanel...
Yves Saint Laurent Like many of the developing fashion stars of tomorrow, Yves Saint Laurent came to fame by designing for somebody else. He had been at Christian Dior for only two years when the legendary founder died of a heart attack. The reins were quickly passed to Saint Laurent, 21. His first collection for Dior stuck closely to the house's legacy - and was a smash success. "Saint Laurent has saved France!" read the papers the following day. But with his next collections he strayed further from the Dior traditions, to the consternation of many - especially the house...
...Japanese record label. When we would sit down together in my Nishi Azabu apartment to smoke the drug, our talk turned to grandiose plans and sure-fire schemes. I spoke of articles I would write. Delphine talked about landing a job doing a Dior lingerie catalog. Miki raved about a promising noise band he had just signed. Sometimes the dealer, a lanky fellow named Haru, would hang around and smoke with us and we would be convinced that his future was surely just as bright as all of ours. There was no limit to what we could do, especially...
...Also the seeds of chaos? From now on, all eyes will be on the Dior runways to see whether this diversity produces profits or simply more headlines...