Word: laurentic
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...cheer round the world. The results, wrote Gloria Emerson in the New York Times, "seem to be dresses for women who can't stop rereading old love letters." In the end, what Paris did have to say was said best in two outstanding collections: those of Yves St. Laurent and Andre Courreges...
...Wilde Side. St. Laurent, though only 31, emerged this year-as he has for the past several seasons-as the darling of the fashion world. No matter that he has half a dozen "looks"; admirers put this down to versatility, pointing out that whatever he does he just does it better than anyone else. This year, even his black dresses somehow managed to look cheerful...
...Laurent likes to look back to the 1920s and 1930s. Last year it was Marlene Dietrich suits and the gangster look; this year, in what was billed as homage to 84-year-old Coco Chanel, he turned out a whole series of lowwaisted, high-collared, frilly-skirted dresses that brought cheers and bravos from the spectators...
...euphemism was Lee Bouvier, otherwise Princess Lee Radziwill, 34, younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, making her professional acting debut at Chicago's Ivanhoe Theater in a four-week run of The Philadelphia Story. Alackaday. Neither g-u-t-s nor the services of Seamster Yves St. Laurent and a personal barber (Kenneth) could placate the picadors from the drama desk, who saw only a "lovely looking amateur, an enthusiastic beginner" who "laid a golden egg." Leading Lady Bouvier compared opening night to having a baby ("You wanted to have it over with"), but Husband Stanislas Radziwill refused to accept...
...Parisian nobleman named Henri Le Secq des Tournelles and his father Jerome Le Secq des Tournelles, between 1870 and 1921. Henri gave his collection to the city of Rouen a year before his death when the city fathers offered to house it in the 15th century Church of St. Laurent, which had been secularized and abandoned during the Revolution. To the younger Des Tournelles, iron collecting was a kind of madness. His wife divorced him over it, his fortune was squandered on it, and the story goes that after he had given his collection to Rouen, he moved into...