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...Gaulle and his ministers have failed since then to find fundamental solutions. The government, in fact, has not produced a single new law that effectively gets at the roots of the inequities in French society. As the National Assembly's fall term came to an end, Pierre Lelong, a Gaullist Deputy from Brittany, complained, "I have to tell my voters what we have accomplished, but I don't know what to say. We haven't done anything...
...close a deal. It deals regularly with such stores as Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, will pay more for merchandise if the manufacturer or store will let it leave on the original labels. Just before Paris fell to the Germans, Filene's buyers shipped 400 Schiaparelli and Lelong dresses home through Spain; the dresses disappeared from the racks in 15 minutes. Chairman Hodgkinson managed to buy out the Queen Mary's fancy haberdashery shop when the liner became a World War II troopship, still travels around the globe in search of bargains for the basement...
Died. Lucien Lelong, 68, Paris dress designer and parfumeur; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. As president of the fashion-ruling Chambre Syndicate de la Couture, Lelong persuaded the World War II Nazi invaders not to shift the fashion capital from Paris to Berlin because only in Paris could couture flourish, and German-dominated postwar Europe would need a flourishing couture to compete with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue...
Buttonhook, line and slinker, the Nazis bought the argument, let Paris' 60-odd dressmakers carry on business almost as usual. Among them: Lelong proteégeés Balmain and Dior...
...plump world-fashion dictator, designer of the New Look (1947) and the Flat Look (1954), supporter pf the Sack Look (1957); of a heart attack while playing cards on vacation in Montecatini, Italy. At 30 he launched his career as assistant to such shapemakers as Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips...