Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same could be said about De La Renta's clothes generally, for he designs with the woman of over 30 firmly in mind. "There is no other age for a woman," he says. "When she is over 30, she is just starting to live her life to the fullest." A man of his word, Oscar de La Renta during a lunch hour last week slipped down to New York's city hall to marry Franchise de Langlade, 36, outgoing editor of French Vogue. By mid-afternoon he was back at work, putting the finishing touches on his spring...
Married. Oscar de La Renta, 34, Manhattan fashion designer, and Francoise de Langlade, 36, former editor of French Vogue; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING...
...LA BELLE OTERO by Arthur H. Lewis. 257 pages. Trident...
...always thus. In the turn-of-the-century fling known as la belle epoque, the courtesan was queen and her clients were often kings. In The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in 19th Century France, Author Joanna Richardson selects an all-Second Empire team of les grandes horizontals. Her standards are stringent by definition: "A courtesan is less than a mistress and more than a prostitute. She is less than a mistress because she sells her love for material benefits; she is more than a prostitute because she chooses her lovers...
Many also achieved secondary but more lasting fame: Marie Duplessis was the prototype for the heroines of Dumas' La Dame aux camelias and La Traviata; Blanche d'Antigny was transformed by Zola into Nana and Apollonie Sabatier was the real-life la Muse et la Madone of Baudelaire's Les Flews du nuil. If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps. A practical sort was Blanche d'Antigny. An inordinately heavy sleeper, she found early in her career...