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...Hubert de Givenchy declared that that made her a member of the "working press," barred her from his showing. Lee stalked off to Ravello in a huff. "It couldn't matter less," said she. "I haven't been buying his clothes; I've been wearing St. Laurent's." She was not telling Givenchy anything...
...sensation of the week was St. Laurent himself. The 26-year-old designer, whose first success came five years ago (when he inherited the House of Dior on the master's death and inaugurated the trapeze line), had been out of the running for a while. Drafted into the French army for two years, he returned to Dior to find Designer Marc Bohan in his place. Paris divided on the issue, and St. Laurent had a nervous breakdown. Squaring his narrow shoulders, St. Laurent opened his own house last season to mixed notices. But this year, bravos came...
...With St. Laurent's elevation to the ranks of the fashion greats, the Big Two (Balenciaga and Givenchy) became Three. The fall fashion trends: more fur (on cuffs, collars, scarves and hoods); jewel shades of color (garnet, topaze and turquoise) along with the not-so-new fruit and flower tones (fuchsia, heather, plum and black currant); opulent fabrics (heavily worked brocade, beaded silk and lace). "The little-boy look," cried Women's Wear Daily, "is out . . . The Big Three have rediscovered...
...belted waist was in and so was the welt-seamed skirt that whirls like a skater's costume. Hemlines stayed put. The buyers' favorites were Givenchy's high bustline, soft-shouldered dresses and Balenciaga's short shrug jackets. A hemstitch away in popularity: Yves St. Laurent's "cowboy look" (sombreros, neckerchiefs), and Marc Bohan's Dior evening gowns that plunge front and back. Copies, adaptations and custom reproductions will be ready in U.S. shops this month...
...dolce vita: a pretentious prologue announces that "this picture symbolizes the widespread immoral conduct prevalent among our young, presenting its facts with brutal significance." What the moviegoer actually gets is a fitfully funny knockabout with an ancient theme, the falling-out of thieves. Three young punks (Jean Claude Brialy, Laurent Terzieff, Franco Interlenghi) flap-foot about Rome, trying to sell some stolen guns (their fence is busy with a funeral), trying to cheat some prostitutes (the girls cheat them), trying to betray one another, trying to impress someone (they don't impress anyone...