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...toga coats" by Jacques Griffe; the slope-shouldered "Sling Drape" by Castillo of Lanvin; the gently indented Egg-Cup Silhouette" by Jacques Heim. Three of the most important "looks" (see cuts) : Pierre Cardin's tapered "Sickle Silhouette," Guy Laroche's bouncy "Flounce Look," Dior Designer Yves Saint-Laurent's loose and swinging "Trapeze Line...
...third model sashayed out, sudden applause for the new Dior line crashed through the cream-and-gilt rooms. It kept up for two more hours and 175 more models. Cries of "bravo, bravo!" broke out at the finale, a model marching by in a bridal gown. When Saint-Laurent himself appeared, mothered by his two weeping associates, Mme. Raymonde and Mme. Marguerite, the blushing youth was mobbed. Reporters squeezed his hand, kissed his cheeks, pushed him to an outside balcony, where he waved royally to a cheering crowd below...
Even the world's sharp-eyed buyers, no wasters of emotion, though they loved Dior, rose as one to give Saint-Laurent a standing ovation. "One of the great Dior collections," exulted Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman. Said astute Marie-Louise Bousquet, Harper's Bazaar's oldest Paris hand: "If the colossus of Dior had crumbled, it would have shaken French fashion to its foundations...
What caused the fuss was Saint-Laurent's "trapeze line": narrow shoulders, shaped bodice and a loose flow with an easy swing ("trapeze") from solar plexus to kneecaps. Like such other top designers as Guy Laroche, Jean Dessės and Lanvin-Castillo, who showed their wares last week, Saint-Laurent has gone to work on the billowy, knee-hobbling chemise-sack dress, the first big change in female fashions since the New Look in 1947. Some made it slimmer, some wider, most flared the hemline and shortened it until it barely covers the knees. Fashion writers hailed Saint...
Operation in the doldrums is nothing new to Petrofina (full name: Compagnie Financiere Beige des Petroles). Says Managing Director Laurent Wolters in Brussels: "We consider that the time to buy is when things are bad, because you can get them at a reasonable price. Industry-wise, the situation is dreadful, but our situation is good." On a global level, the policy has worked well. Stripped of almost everything but its name after World War II, when the Communists nationalized its Rumanian oilfields, Petrofina swapped its license to refine in France with British Petroleum for a guaranteed supply of crude, revitalized...