Word: eugenia
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...French army, "retired" from Dior two months ago because of "ill health," Bohan, one of the few married male couturiers in Paris, took over. Few in Paris expected much from his debut, and St. Laurent fans were openly hostile. Admitted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "I had a poisoned typewriter ribbon ready...
...Bohan's hip-hugging skirts, exotic colors ("Laburnum yellow," "Provence apricot,"), and infinite attention to detail and neatness, generally embracing the flapper trend, stunned the salon and sent reporters into paroxysms of joy. "But Marc Bohan is wonderful," cried a converted Eugenia Sheppard. "Five minutes after the show started, I felt like a cat before a saucer of cream...
...upper nobility. Fabiola's father, Gonzalo, who died in 1957, was the fourth Marqués de Casa Riera, and her mother claims descent from the royal houses of the extinct Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Navarre. Last January Fabiola went to Switzerland to visit Queen Victoria Eugenia, widow of Spain's Alfonso XIII. While there, she met for the first time lanky (6 ft.), retiring Baudouin, 30, King of the Belgians. There were other meetings during the summer, but Fabiola continued to live quietly in her Madrid apartment, and continued her normal pursuits: churchgoing, charitable works, visits...
...they turn out to be dresses with jackets. Several leading houses emphasized lounging pants, among them Dior, which designed a number of lounging costumes for formal evening wear. About the only thing the designers agreed on was that sleeves are out. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "How to look old hat this summer will be simple. Wear a dress with sleeves...
...Herald Tribune's Women's Feature Editor Eugenia Sheppard sparked a short-lived rebellion by breaking a fashion story before press week. An emergency luncheon meeting of fashion editors and Couture Group representatives was held at "21," and the revolt ended after what Columnist Sheppard still recalls as "the time I was served up on toast...