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Into Idlewild Airport last week flew two jets carrying the fashion world's legal tender-the first shipment of 1960 dresses from the chandeliered showrooms of Balenciaga, Balmain, Dior and other leading couturiers. Awaiting their arrival were buyers and designers from chain stores and dress manufacturers, ready to go to work producing "line for line" copies (e.g., near-perfect imitations) of the fashions...
...stores, this year has recruited nearly 40 dress manufacturers to produce "line for line" copies of 75 styles from most of the major Paris designers; prices will range from $50 (for daytime dresses) to $200 (for coats). In turn, Seventh Avenue will copy the copyists, produce $10 versions of Dior originals for the housewife in Pocatello...
Long Day's Journey. At 3:20 p.m., Farah, dressed in her 33-lb., jewel-encrusted, mink-hemmed Dior wedding gown, descended the staircase of her home for the last time, stepped to a cage and set free 150 nightingales, a ritual she preferred to the usual symbolic slaughter of lambs all over the countryside. As she walked through the front door, her mother held over her head a mirror and the Koran as a symbol of the long journey she was about to take. Finally, escorted by a troop of Imperial Lancers, Farah was driven in a Rolls...
...weeks France's National Assembly has debated the cases of nervous Draftee Jacques Charrier, 23. cinemactor bridegroom of Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot, and Civilian Yves Saint-Laurent, 23, twice-deferred head of Paris' high-fashion House of Dior. Last week France's Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat himself spoke up: hospitalized Charrier is really "an urgent case for observation and treatment"; willowy Designer Saint-Laurent will be drafted-come hell or high fashion -next September...
After the Shah's mother gave a party in her honor last week, Farah Diba was escorted to the Teheran airport next morning by palace guards in civilian clothes, boarded an airliner for Geneva and Paris, presumably to buy her trousseau (she bought 15 Dior dresses). Iranian courtiers speculate that the engagement will be announced this week on the Shah's 40th birthday, but point out that even if the marriage goes through as expected, Farah will receive the title of Queen of Iran only if she bears a son. Until that time, she would probably be known...