Word: dior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Parisian stores, which ten years ago had no U.S.-style decorations, have suddenly realized a few sprigs of holly and strings of lights can help part a Frenchman and his francs. The leader of the movement is Christian Dior. Each Dior window features a Christmas tree standing on a terrace at Versailles (that citadel of un-Christian morals). Inside, mannequins topped with Marie Antoinette hairdos and draped with Dior hostess gowns hold aloft model reindeer and-of all things-old sailing boats. From the ceiling hang huge plastic chandeliers, each of which took 300 hours to make. Said Decorator Jean...
Wednesday, September 1 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.).* "Paris Exclusive: Fashions '66, with Olivia de Havilland," marks the first advance filming by a television news team of the winter showings at Christian Dior and Jeanne Lanvin in Paris...
Carroll had latched onto the dernier cri: from Paris to Rome, the word was feathers. And enough of them were being used to have the Audubon Society declare a state of emergency. Dior's Marc Bohan must have robbed every hen house and bird cage on the Continent. He whipped up topcoats of grouse, full-length evening coats of grackle, blouses of speckled hen feathers and wove materials half in tweed and half in pin feathers...
Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood of bo peng nhan (it doesn't matter), scrofulous pi-dogs howl their way past open drains, and the sidewalks under the glittering shop windows are perilous with potholes...
...expanded-vinyl cloth was developed in the U.S. in the Fort Edward, N.Y., plant of Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. three years ago and nobody much in the U.S. cared. When a Cohn-Hall-Marx representative showed it around Paris though, big-name houses like Courreges, Dior, and V de V saw big new possibilities in this soft, slick stuff that draped so gracefully and was so easily printed with clear color and bold design. Now some of the big Paris houses are backing away a bit from what bids fair to be an all-out fad, but U.S. manufacturers...