Word: dior
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...whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food and no smoking were allowed, did not get the scene at all. Said one bewildered beard to another: "I don't know what this cat is laying down...
...House of Dior Couturier Marc Bohan puts the reverse culotte on everything from beach clothes to ball gowns, and makes slender tubes of evening dresses seem vaguely practical enough to go hiking in. German Model Brigitta Schmucker (see above) wears a silver-embroidered pale pink nylon net version...
Mecca for fashion models is Paris' House of Dior, but for redheaded Welsh Mannequin Maggie Griffiths, 23, Dior was becoming a bore. "Fittings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night; the same clothes in the same shows day after...
...earned less in a week there than I can in one day in London." So Maggie packed her hatbox and flew home to London, leaving other aspirants with a word of advice: "It is great prestige to work for Dior. I am fed up with prestige. You can't bank...
...sensation of the week was St. Laurent himself. The 26-year-old designer, whose first success came five years ago (when he inherited the House of Dior on the master's death and inaugurated the trapeze line), had been out of the running for a while. Drafted into the French army for two years, he returned to Dior to find Designer Marc Bohan in his place. Paris divided on the issue, and St. Laurent had a nervous breakdown. Squaring his narrow shoulders, St. Laurent opened his own house last season to mixed notices. But this year, bravos came...