Word: lanvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lights" was a source of infinite wonder. With her husband and three-year-old daughter Duyen, Mai ("Snow Flower" in Vietnamese) explored the palace grounds at Versailles. When Ky was busy, Viet Nam's Second Lady delightedly wove her way through the salons of Courrèges and Lanvin. The Vice President was spared a whopping bill only by his wife's prudent deference to protocol. Said she wistfully: "I have no occasion to wear such gowns. At official functions I wear only my national costume...
...celebrate the opening of his chichi men's shop, Fashion Designer Bernard Lanvin threw a bash at Brasserie Bofinger, one of the newest In restaurants in Paris. It was a time for the boys to shine, but it was an aging lady of 72 who stole the show. The Duchess of Windsor, looking slim as ever in her well-above-the-knee sequin outfit, wowed the crowd by dancing the Jerk with her host...
...that has made debonair, soft-spoken Oscar de La Renta, 34, the most talked-about and envied new young designer. Born in the Dominican Republic ("Most of my family were diplomats; my father was in insurance"), Oscar opted for art, switched" to fashion in Paris, where he designed for Lanvin before coming to the U.S. to work with Elizabeth Arden. On his own for only two years, in September he picked up his first Coty American Fashion Critics Award ("Winnie") as the best U.S. designer...
...going up, something must come down, designer after designer rediscovered shorts, called forthrightly "les Bermudas." For daytime, Esterel showed shorts worn with knee socks; for evening, Madame Grès let them peek through a floor-length skirt slit to the hip like a half-peeled banana. Crahay at Lanvin blossomed forth with frilly organdy bloomers under flaring, tentlike little-girl dresses, and Castillo even tried an evening tunic with sheer pantaloons. Carrying exposure further, Paco Rabanne whipped up see-through dresses made of ostrich feathers and transparent plastic disks...
Died. Jacques Heim, 67, Parisian high-fashion designer whose House of Heim was considerably less radical than the houses of Dior, Chanel, and Lanvin, trending to very elegant, quietly simple styles (among its clients: Mme. de Gaulle, Queen Fabiola, Mamie Eisenhower), yet could hardly be called stodgy, seeing as how it was the birthplace in 1946 of a teeny-weeny swimsuit called the A tome, which Heim designed for Riviera beaches and which other designers picked up and renamed the bikini; of a cerebral embolism; in Neuilly, France...