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...grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, some 1,200 members of the garment industry crowded in for a look at the latest fashions from abroad. Among the 57 styles paraded across the stage were some from Europe's top designers-Dior, Fath, Balenciaga, Visconti. But the dress that brought the house down was "First Love," the product of an almost unknown Irish woman. Designed by Dublin's 32-year-old Sybil Connolly, it was a dazzling white ball gown made of gossamer-thin handkerchief linen. Sewn into 5,500 minuscule pleats and banded with...
...fall fashions appeared in stores and dress shops last week just as the first pictures of Paris' new creations blossomed forth in the magazines. The contrast was startling. Many of the French styles seemed outlandish to the American eye. Jacques Fath offered maternity-like tent coats ("the green cone"); Balenciaga suits had elbow cuffs like parachutes. One Schiaparelli model looked like an oldtime Bloomer Girl (see cut) in an evening gown consisting of a short halter and harem-type underskirt. By comparison, conservative Hattie Carnegie's trim, attractive "spider web" evening gown looked just the thing most...
...Hearth. Evita spends $40,000 or more a year just for dresses from Paris' top designers.*In 1950, she ordered gowns from Balmain, Dior, Fath and Rochas. She has the furs of a czarina, the jewels of a maharani. Last year Perón took a fancy to a U.S. visitor and volunteered to show him around the presidential mansion. While displaying roomful after roomful of Evita's clothes the President guffawed: "Not exactly a descamisada, eh?" Evita herself is not a bit abashed. She is quite likely to appear at a streetcleaners' rally dressed...
...Jacques Fath, serenely confident that women will gladly carry around several yards of window drapes attached to their elbows, set off his strapless white satin sheath gown with "conversation piece" gloves trailing sweeping panels of white satin lined in champagne tulle. Raphael forsook needle & thread for the saw & hammer, peeled off wafer-thin slices of plywood and riveted them-with diamonds, naturally-to the cape of his suit. Castillo of Lanvin's rose-red skirt, fanning out in a graceful arc "like the petals of a full-blown rose," used 33 yards of taffeta to achieve that effect...
...come dressed as if they were going to a 1900 frolic at a seaside resort. The result: U.S. Ambassador David Bruce came as a valet de chambre, with Mrs. Bruce turned out as a lady's maid; Baron Alain de Rothschild played a bearded sea captain; Couturier Jacques Fath slipped into a simple bearskin creation, to match the gypsy getup of his pretty blonde wife, who is his favorite model...