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...Paris' Latin Quarter and mimic the bouffant hairdos and casual dress styles of "La Marieleen." A line of Monroe dolls planned by a New York City manufacturer will include a $6,000, 16-in. porcelain model that is described as a replica of the star, with a fur coat and diamond earrings. It will make its debut next month at the American Toy Fair in New York. Last week, "Remember Marilyn" shops at Bloomingdale's New York-area department stores began offering a line of Monroe-inspired blouses, sweaters and tight pants. Says Bloomingdale's Vice President...
This is a glamour girl in the coyote fur coat, an American aristocrat, the goddaughter of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest, 19, the youngest child of a socially prominent family, grew up on Long Island and in Palm Beach and New York City. She spent 1982 as a debutante, and all year long the New York gossip journalists mentioned her in print, often dusting off a quaint epithet: deb of the year. "I don't get tired of it," she says, having finished her eggs and her Tab and three more cigarettes cadged from...
Fifteen years after her first starring role in a fur bikini in One Million Years B.C., Raquel Welch, 42, is writing a book. And in the tradition of Jane Fonda and Miss Piggy, it will be an exercise-beauty-tip plan for which she has already received a $275,000 advance from New American Library. Welch, who has been warming up for her task by practicing on a new $10,000 word processor, says that unlike other get-fit-quick books, hers will emphasize that "the mind and the body are connected." She hasn't actually started writing...
...Ninety; The Complete Graphics (E.P. Dutton; $75). On the cover is Beauty and the Beast, a serigraph of the quintessential Erté woman, who still rules his world. Coiffed in a peacock's tail, she has wrapped her naked body in the ultimate art deco fur coat, a live black panther...
Volvo intends to control its sales growth in the U.S. by limiting the number of cars it exports. Says Gyllenhammar: "If we try to react too quickly to styles and trends, we lose our honesty. We have stayed away from putting green fur covers on the seats because someone says he might like green fur seats." If volume continues to increase, however, one option is to open the U.S. assembly plant that Volvo built in Chesapeake, Va., but decided in 1974 not to operate. Whether an American-made Volvo would diminish the Swedish mystique, only those loyal and affluent buyers...