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...only one pushing pouf this year. Ungaro, Cardin and Lagerfeld, among others, showed versions of the bubble. (Saint Laurent, who was blowing fashionable bubbles when Lacroix was in his grandmother's attic, showed an exquisite but conventional collection.) But not only did Lacroix pioneer the new silhouette, he is ineffably its presiding spirit...
...locker room last night, the champagne flowed freely. Harvard scientists, including five Nobel laureates on hand for the occassion, sucked bubbly and toasted Harvard's most recent superstar. President Derek C. Bok supplemented the alcohol on hand by sending over a vintage bottle of Laurent-Perrier. Attached was a note from Bok that read, in part, "good guys don't always finish last...
...bomb was tossed from a black BMW carrying two mustachioed men, one of whom rolled down the window and tossed the bomb at the Tati clothing and textile store in the Montparnasse district, said Laurent Davenas, an assistant state prosecutor...
...greatest designers of this century were Americans--Claire McCardell and Charles James--but, truth be told, there is not a designer on the American scene now who can match Armani's bold finesse, never mind the inventiveness of Issey Miyake, the deluxe grace of Yves Saint Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld, the Zen funkiness of Yohji Yamamoto. The best American design tends to be generic, not designer labeled. It would be hard to find, for instance, a designer who has been influenced by Louis Dell'Olio, but it would be equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that...
...week as Mitterrand approved Chirac's selection of a new Cabinet after 48 hours of intense negotiations. Thirteen of the ministerial appointments were filled by Chirac associates, and nine went to representatives of Giscard's U.D.F., the second-largest conservative faction. As the new Cabinet took office, outgoing Premier Laurent Fabius formally submitted his government's resignation and used the occasion for a touch of political prophecy. Said he: "We will be back...