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...Paris gala benefit prescribed: "Smoking pour les hommes et pour les femmes," which in this case did not mean that everyone should light up a Gauloise. Smoking meant le smoking, French for dinner jacket, and nearly all the girls, falling in with a trend started by Designer Yves St. Laurent last year, showed up looking like either Marlene Dietrich or a headwaiter. Well, almost. Certainly no one would have taken Singer Francoise Hardy, 23, for a captain. Still, the men in the crowd at the Moulin Rouge party seemed more fascinated by the barely clad dancers onstage than they...
Lalanne's prices are equally fantastic: $10,000 for the sheep or the housefly, $25,000 for the rhino. Among the happy few who have chosen to afford them: Designer Yves St. Laurent, who bought a rhino, and French Premier Georges Pompidou, who bought a pair of china ostriches whose beaks hold a metal board serving as a bar. And why does Lalanne spend his time creating such extravagant fancies? His answer is as good as any likely to be heard this spring: "For the most elementary reason-it amuses...
...their sides. Also hard: a "prancesuit" made up of a melon crepe tunic and thigh-tight knee pants with blue crystal trim and blue shoes to match. The soft(expectable) surprise comes in the form of Paris spring fashions, from Dior's white hunting jacket to St. Laurent's daytime version of "le smoking...
...American designers now set the styles-that Paris, the fashion capital of the world for the past four centuries, is dying? Many designers and editors in the U.S. insist today that it does. They point out how many times in recent years U.S. designers have shown the way. St. Laurent's "pop art" dresses this year look much like U.S. teen-age fad dresses of last summer. The hit of Bohan's collection for Dior this July was the "Doctor Zhivago" long coat, coupled with a short-skirted suit; yet the U.S.'s Gernreich showed the same...
Five Cheaters. Harper's Bazaar editor and former model China Machado wore what she called "just me" beneath Yves St. Laurent's Cleopatra dress -a snowfall of shimmering spangles around bosom and hips joined by sheer, flesh-color chiffon. But others, who felt uneasy about the quasi-nude fashions, decided to cheat. Newporter Minnie Gushing, tall and stately with cascading hair, wore a body stocking under her gold latticework Desdemona robe designed by Oscar de la Renta...