Word: laurentic
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...getting more than bad news in their monthly bills. Stuffed in with the statements are paper advertising inserts that contain samples of eye shadow. By brushing a fingertip across a colored strip, a woman can try out this season's shades from Charles of the Ritz, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior...
...hotel in the French lakeside resort of Talloires, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier remained a tyrant without a country. France's government, waging an uphill battle to win legislative elections next month, is anxious indeed to unload the former Haitian dictator. With here's-your-hat bluntness, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius snapped, "We want him to leave as quickly as possible." The U.S., which provided a military transport to fly Duvalier and his entourage into exile three weeks ago, refuses to give Baby Doc asylum. Liberia, the only nation that had expressed interest in playing host, had second thoughts...
...exhibit, which shows off some 112 costumes on three separate floors, is the museum's way of introducing itself. It will be succeeded in the spring by a show of Yves Saint Laurent, then of Christian Dior. There will be space on the fifth floor for permanent exhibition of items from the museum's collection of more than 10,000 costumes, a few of which date back as far as the 16th century. And there will be a boutique to sell reworkings of famous designer accessories, as well as space to restore clothes. In all, the museum will occupy eleven...
...museum's permanent collection. It is also highly symbolic: the windows, worked neatly into the exhibition space by Kahane, overlook a splendid Parisian landscape where fashion still thrives as it does no place else in the world. Just a short distance away are the couture houses of Saint Laurent, Madame Gres, Givenchy and Dior, which began their spring/summer showings even as Mitterrand was presiding over the museum's official opening. In March, the courtyard of the Louvre will be overrun by the world fashion press and buyers assembled to check out over 50 different ready-to-wear shows...
...page of the French Socialist daily Le Matin last Thursday, while another paper added his familiar ears to its logo for the day. All of France, it seemed, was celebrating what one government official called "the largest investment in recent history in France." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, called for the construction of a $1 billion, 5,000-acre European Disneyland some 20 miles east of downtown Paris. Said Eisner: "Walt Disney would certainly feel at home here, because European literature inspired so many of his fantasies and characters...