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...Huggers. The triumph of the week and cause of the most excitement was the work of Christian Dior's little-known, untested Marc Bohan, 34. The Parisian-born son of a modiste, Bohan broke into haute couture in 1945 as an assistant designer at Patou, left Patou in 1958 to work under Dior's Boy Wonder Chief Designer Yves St. Laurent. When St. Laurent, after an unhappy stint in the French army, "retired" from Dior two months ago because of "ill health," Bohan, one of the few married male couturiers in Paris, took over. Few in Paris expected...
With the winter fashion showings only a week away, Parisian newsmen should have their eyes on hemlines, but their attention was drawn instead to the girls inside the dresses. "Too many foreigners!" cried Lucy ("Lucky") Janichevski, 33, who despite her Polish name is native French and has been Paris' top mannequin for a long time. The late Christian Dior once described her as "couture become theater-from a dress she can make, at her pleasure, a comedy or a drama." Now Lucky was on the warpath. "If a model has a foreign accent, she gets paid more," Lucky charged...
Wellborn Babes. Dorian scouts the world for new talent, has helped make the Parisian model market so cosmopolitan that perhaps not even De Gaulle himself could turn back the clock. Among the season's best: trim and Finnish Brigitte Juslin, who is tops in sportswear; Switzerland's dark, blue-eyed Carla Marlier; Germany's Nico Ozack ("a magnificent Renoir body-in the nude she doesn't look like a model at all"); Jasmine, ex-shepherdess from Algeria, who gained her poise carrying water jugs on her head. The favorite in the February Harper's Bazaar...
Throughout the centuries, artists have used models in assorted ways, but no one has ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf...
Leave the Pebbles. Their way of life, however, is pioneer Israeli. Three years ago a Parisian metallurgical engineer named Vincent Thibout, then 33, took his pregnant wife, Therese, to Israel, where they spent 18 months in a kibbutz (collective). He learned how to farm and speak a fluent facsimile of Hebrew; he strews his talk with as many shalom as an ordinary Frenchman with alors...