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Designer Cardin at 56 has attached his name to practical fantasies that can be worn, walked on, slept in, sat upon, munched, drunk, flown, pedaled or driven in 69 countries. His latest coup is an agreement to serve as exclusive consultant to China's embryonic fashion industry. The Parisian may have his haute couture models reproduced in China, where the workmanship is exquisite and cheap, creating a new export trade for the Middle Kingdom. If the contract works out, 10% of Cardin-Cathay will be reserved for sale inside China, which is probably wise, considering the fact that...
...Forbidden City. After decades of isolation and unisex, it is not too surprising that the Chinese should again aspire to elegance, or seek it from Paris, where some of their leaders were educated. As for Cardin: "When I was 20, a fortune teller told me that my name would be on all the walls of the cities of the world." Now, the Great Wall...
BORN. To Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 45, Soviet poet, and Jan Butler, 26, her husband's assistant and translator: their first child; in Bournemouth, England. Name: Alexander. Yevtushenko has no natural children from his two previous marriages, though he has one adopted...
DIED. Malcolm Muir, 93, founder of Business Week and longtime executive of Newsweek; in Manhattan. As president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Muir in 1929 helped create Business Week, and in 1937 joined News-Week as its president. He changed the four-year-old magazine's name to Newsweek, emphasized more interpretative stories, introduced signed columns and international editions. Muir was named honorary chairman of the board when the Washington Post Co. bought the magazine...
...announced the sale of Bonwit's twelve-story Manhattan building and real estate leases to Developer Donald Trump for $10 million. Allied Stores, a large retail chain, is negotiating to buy Bonwit's twelve branches across the country, which it would operate under the Bonwit Teller name. But at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, where Bonwit's was rouged cheek by powdered jowl with Tiffany and Bergdorf Goodman, there will probably be some sort of highrise...