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...mining business, the source of the Guggenheim family's great wealth. Then he became fascinated with flying, served as a naval aviator in both World Wars. In 1929 he took a plunge into diplomacy by becoming Ambassador to Cuba, spent much of his time prevailing on Dictator Machado y Morales not to murder too many of his political opponents. He has married three times, bred race horses on his 11,000-acre estate, Cain Hoy, in South Carolina, and supervised various family interests, including Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
...What's beginning to happen in our houses," says ex-Model China Machado, now an editor on Harper's Bazaar, "is that we are developing a Designer's Look." Each designer strives to create an individual personality that comes across in all his clothes; and they range from, say, the kooky inventiveness of Rudi Gernreich to the effortless poise of Ferdinando Sarmi. As to the best U.S. designers, each fashion expert has his preference, but two are universally ranked...
...short-skirted suit; yet the U.S.'s Gernreich showed the same style in 1963, and half a dozen other American designers showed it in 1965 and May 1966. "Paris has no longer got what we go to look for," says Manufacturer Mollie Parnis. "Everything in Paris," says China Machado, "is a copy...
Five Cheaters. Harper's Bazaar editor and former model China Machado wore what she called "just me" beneath Yves St. Laurent's Cleopatra dress -a snowfall of shimmering spangles around bosom and hips joined by sheer, flesh-color chiffon. But others, who felt uneasy about the quasi-nude fashions, decided to cheat. Newporter Minnie Gushing, tall and stately with cascading hair, wore a body stocking under her gold latticework Desdemona robe designed by Oscar de la Renta...
ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Machado is the Proust of fin de siècle Rio de Janeiro. His chronicle of old manners and old morals being swept away by new money has the fascination of a gossip column and the authenticity of a diary preserved in lavender...