Word: laurentlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your March 22 story on the identity of Yves Saint-Laurent's angel, Atlanta Businessman J. Mack Robinson, was in fact an earlier exclusive by one of our papers, Women's Wear Daily...
...months, the rumors have been flying around Paris that the fashion house of Yves Saint-Laurent was being backed by Swiss interests. In France's most sacred national industry,that was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the awful truth.Already irritated at the incursions of U.S. industry and investment into France, the French learned last week that Saint-Laurent's backer is none other than an American: J. Mack Robinson, 39, an Atlanta insurance executive (Delta Life). Robinson was the secret patron who supplied financial backing for Saint-Laurent to start a dress house...
Robinson, a reserved and soft-spoken fellow, started out far from fashion - as a car salesman - and later moved into life insurance and real estate. Searching for investments in Europe, he was introduced to young Saint-Laurent, who had been Christian Dior's heir apparent before he was called up by the French army and lost his position at the House of Dior to Marc Bohan. Stranded at 25, he was eager to design on his own. Robinson advanced him the funds, but has stayed out of the fitting rooms. "I am completely ignorant of fashion," he says...
...knee, shapes kept narrow, colors vivid. Though Designer Capucci offered something called "the Peking Look," and Dior presented a wide-armhole, blousy sleeve, hardly anything was really brand-new. There we're flowers on everything-Balmain cinched the waist of an evening gown with green satin leaves. Saint-Laurent flung lilies of the valley onto everything from formals to hats. The results, while not revolutionary, were some of the handsomest clothes in years...
...Turn. Petrofina owes its recovery principally to astute Chairman-President Laurent Wolters, 61, a Russian-born Belgian who, in a long Petrofina tradition of clannishness, got his first job at Petrofina through a board member who happened to be his godfather. Wolters took over the wreckage at war's end with a shrewd entrepreneur's eye for opportunity instead of salvage. Since crude oil was cheap and abundant, he ordered Petrofina to forget production, buy its oil from other companies and concentrate on expanding its sales outlets. Petrofina expanded by buying up existing chains (such as British Cities...