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Fumes of Privilege. All is not yet lost on Savile Row, the "Golden Mile" made up of some 200 establishments on half a dozen streets in Mayfair. In a men's-club atmosphere of horsehair sofas, fireplaces, brass candelabras and rolltop desks, the shops breathe-as one historian noted appreciatively-"the fumes of privilege, of clubs, of Toryism." In keeping with the tradition that put a Savile Row uniform on Napoleon III when he mounted the throne of France, Hawes & Curtis recently finished a $900, gold-braided beauty for Thailand's King Bhumibol, as part...
...couturiers and put them into mass production at off-the-peg prices ($35 for a suit, $9 for a dress). Glossy women's magazines filled with how-to-do-it beauty articles have proliferated and prospered. Any hairdresser styling himself "René of Paris" or "André of Mayfair" does a roaring business...
EUROPE'S TALLEST HOTEL will be built in London by Conrad N. Hilton and British Financier Charles Clore (TIME, June 15). The 530-room London Hilton will tower 27 stories above Mayfair, cost $17 million, open...
...Isles, Casey will be entitled to take a seat in the House of Lords. In England, meanwhile, Elizabeth, expecting her third child imminently, was the subject of a spate of delicious prattle. It seems that lightweight Novelist Barbara (Love Is the Enemy) Cartland had visited the exclusive Mayfair beauty salon of Mrs. Elizabeth Forsythe, who also enjoys the Queen's custom. Barbara told a group of housewives "in confidence" (during a lecture entitled "You Can Be Beautiful") what Mrs. Forsythe had told her: "The Queen is having a special facial just before her new baby is born, and will...
While a full complement of European royalty and all manner of aristocrats looked on, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, 30, younger daughter of Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, was married to Commoner David Hicks, one of Mayfair's classiest interior decorators. During the ceremony, a blizzard raged outside old Romsey Abbey in Hampshire. Because of her pregnancy, Queen Elizabeth II was not there, but her most charming proxy was doubtless little Princess Anne, 9, buffered from the very cold weather with a flannelette-lined bridesmaid's gown. At the reception, Anne, feeling quite grown up, sipped...