Word: laurentic
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...silence. Only a few flames could be seen flickering through the roof of the fortress-like, cinder-block building, and the men assumed that it was a minor fire. But when they pried open an emergency exit at Le Cinq-Sept, a popular dance hall for youths in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont near Grenoble, two of the firemen fainted. Bodies were stacked before them in ghastly contortions of agony. Fists were literally fried against the locked door. Impressions of hands, arms and heads were fused into the cement wall. Almost all of the 145 dead were young-between...
...result of the fire, self-proclaimed Maoist French university students rioted in Grenoble, smashing windows, throwing Molotov cocktails and threatening a number of local officials with lynching. As a mass funeral was held for the fire's victims, the French government suspended Saint-Laurent-du-Pont's mayor and the prefecture secretary-general of the Alpine department of Isère where the town is situated. Five mayors from neighboring towns resigned in protest against the suspensions, and a Deputy from Isère, Aime Paquet, rose in the National Assembly and urged: "Let the dead sleep...
...Fairchild thrived. In 1957, weeks before it was shown to the buyers, he managed to get hold of a sketch of Givenchy's precedent-shattering shift, later to be called "the sack," and ran it on WWD's front page. In 1960, he got advance word of Yves St. Laurent's distinctive new silhouette for the House of Dior, which he maliciously described as looking like "a toothpaste tube on top of a brioche." Soon Fairchild was not only sitting in the front row for new collections, but mixing socially with top designers and buyers as well...
...ignored by WWD, you're in trouble," says Designer Anne Klein. Her collections get coverage, but she complains that WWD favors male designers, such as Oscar de La Renta, Adolfo, Bill Blass (though he was snubbed for a time), Geoffrey Beene and Yves St. Laurent. Adds Miss Klein: "If St. Laurent showed barrels with two holes cut out, I guarantee that Women's Wear would brand it the coming look. It would also note that the stays were made of teak, the nails were of the purest brass and the holes were structurally...
...developments gave the midi something of a push. In his 1968 fall collection, Yves St. Laurent showed "city pants"?pants to wear to work, parties, restaurants and the theater. Fairchild is firmly convinced that pants on women are "gross," but he paid attention when Designer Marc Bohan told him that they would get the women used to the notion of covering up their mini-bared legs. The second event was the 1969 movie The Damned, a period-costumed portrayal of the decadence of 1930s Nazidom. Fairchild loved the long slinky dresses so much that he gave private screenings...