Word: lanvine
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...only surprises Cocteau prepared for his entry into the academy, however, were his costume, an especially fancy Académie uniform tailored (by Lanvin) of midnight blue instead of the traditional green with gold braid, and his sword (by Cartier) with a hilt modeled to represent a profile of Oedipus. In his initiation speech, Cocteau turned the flow of his conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets...
...Dietrich magic lingers-far more persistently than the whiff of Lanvin's Arpege with which Columbia has obligingly scented the first 5,000 albums...
When Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny died last January, it seemed that there was nobody to take his place. Who among French generals cut a figure half so dashing as the Lanvin-tailored De Lattre? Without De Lattre's dynamic leadership, what was going to happen to Indo-China? France's fears deepened when, in February, the Viet Minh Communists forced the French out of Hoa Binh, which Marshal de Lattre had so boldly taken. Since that low point, the military situation has steadied under the firm hand of De Lattre's sad-eyed friend...
...would literally blanch at the suggestion that all Frenchmen might not instantly rush to the defense of their country at any time. "That is sacrilege, sacrilege!" he would mutter, and his own deep conviction was enough to spur French pride. He had his small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates. Général de Théátre the cynics called him, but if De Lattre's triumphs were invariably spectacular, it was simply because he saw no reason why heroism and high purpose should be hidden under a hypocritical bushel...
...clock ticks away. He stays up till 3 or 4 a.m. reading field reports, then issues his orders for the next day and turns in. He is up again at 10 or 11, after receiving advisers while still in bed. He is a meticulous dresser (his clothes come from Lanvin in Paris), and he has been known to fire a stenographer with the remark: "You don't know how to dress, Miss, and your hair is dirty." Says one newsman who has seen him at work in Indo-China: "Around him all women must be beautiful, all men handsome...