Word: lelong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eiffel Tower is not displaced by the Empire State Building," cried Mme. Schiaparelli early last month, at a Los Angeles Junior League luncheon. Fashioneers were not amused. In Manhattan last fortnight, Mme. Schiaparelli made her farewell speech-on the same day that delayed news came from Paris that Lucien Lelong's "corporative reorganization" of the fashion industry had been completed...
...Harper's Bazaar's blue-haired, dynamic Carmel Snow, declared they were enthusiastic about what the U. S. woman will wear this fall. But the fall styles were not made in Manhattan. Their keynote was struck in Paris last May-by Schiaparelli, by Lanvin, by Chanel, Molyneux, LeLong, etc.-in their regular midseason openings, sparsely attended but well covered by cable and sketch. Since then Paris has fallen. The U. S. dress business will soon need more guidance. Otherwise it will not know what to make...
Renouncing her foreign title, Princess Natalie Paley, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, ex-wife of Parisian Couturier Lucien Lelong, wife of Noel Coward's business manager, John Chapman Wilson, took out first papers for U. S. citizenship. White-haired, U. S.-born Lady Ribblesdale, 70, ex-wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, mother of Vincent Astor, grande dame of international society, renounced her title, once more became a citizen of her native...