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...trend needed. Mainbocher is a slim, blond, fluty young man who used to play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said...
...Duchess of Windsor was last week reported to be eating garlic, long esteemed by Koreans as an aid to fertility. The Duchess was one of the "twelve most glamorous women in the world" invited to a tea given by Lady Mendl in Paris for Dr. H. B. Hauser, Hollywood dietitian.* At the tea, Dr. Hauser talked about food. He accused his twelve fellow guests of "sinful eating," promised them that they "could retain their glamor for a much longer time" by eating simpler foods and more vegetables. Reported Dr. Hauser: "All were serious and the Duchess of Windsor the most...
Yesterday Mrs. Simpson traveled to Versailles in the King's car and stayed with her American friend Lady Mendl. Oxford, always conservative, thinks the whole affair is a bad show but does not reproach the King. The general comment is "Ship Mrs. Simpson back home...
...Elsie de Wolfe Inc., international interior decorators, rushed out last week photographs of their Lady Mendl (nee de Wolfe) standing beside King Edward's private plane, but the story got ahead of them, grew bigger than their publicity. They wanted only to point out that Lady Mendl, after decorating the flat of the King's Mrs. Simpson, was recently brought from Paris in the King's plane to lunch with His Majesty at Sunningdale and there commissioned to decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson...
...darling of effeminate young men, the envy of dowagers, old Lady Mendl claims to have won the title of the World's Best Dressed Woman at a cost of only $15,000 a year. She dyes her hair green, blue or pink and learned how to swim free-style at past 60. Three years ago she swam to shore when a friend's speedboat caught fire off the Riviera. Said she then: "Ten minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives." She made an exception...