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...little weight-say, 20 Ibs. Maria agreed, but when she arrived in Hollywood to start shooting, she was as broad as ever. Furthermore, she was dressed like a middle-aged Central European frump. Her frocks were all in the height of Paris fashion-most of them made by Dior-but she had not bothered to take care of one minor detail: none of them had been properly fitted...
...Yves Saint-Laurent, 21, designer for Paris' fashion-pacing House of Dior, was named chief designer, thereby becoming successor to the late Christian Dior. Lean, shy and bespectacled, Algerian-born Saint-Laurent got his start at only 17 when Dior plucked him from a fashion-designer contest he was judging, made the boy his protege. Saint-Laurent took charge of Dior's lower-priced clothes for Dior's spring collection this year, is unofficially credited with designing nearly half of this fall...
...DIOR'S SUCCESSOR may be brilliant French designer Pierre Cardin, 33, who helped late master create New Look before opening own fashion house. Others in the running: House of Dior Designers Yves Saint Laurent and Yorn Michaelsen, who worked closely with Dior. Company will probably coast along for a year on momentum and designs left by Dior, but test of its ability to continue Dior's flair will come in August with showing of big winter collection...
Died. Christian Dior, 52, pink, plump world-fashion dictator, designer of the New Look (1947) and the Flat Look (1954), supporter pf the Sack Look (1957); of a heart attack while playing cards on vacation in Montecatini, Italy. At 30 he launched his career as assistant to such shapemakers as Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms...
...Dior's hunchbacked look. His jackets blouse out in back where we go in. They are gathered in below the hips where we generally...