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Lanvin made her first dresses at home for her daughter, who is now the Comtesse de Polignac. Others liked them so well that they went to Mme Lanvin to be dressed. Never an extremist, she bases nearly all of her designs on historical fashions or documents, adapting and reworking them to modern colors and materials. The results are regal and highly dramatic, which is one reason why she is patronized by European grandes dames, South Americans, French actresses...
...West party went the Prince of Wales's good friend, the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, in a honey-colored broad cloth coat of her mother's, plumed hat and rhinestone-studded gloves. Equally of the period and all in big feathery hats, the Countess Jean de Polignac, the Duchess d'Harcourt and the Countess Jean de Vogue arrived from Paris' socialite Olympus to agree that only Mrs. Trefusis had transformed herself with complete success into "Diamond Lil" (see cut}. ''Of course I have ideas, but I don't tell them...
Divorced. By Charlotte Louise Juliette Goyon de Matignon Grimaldi, hereditary princess of Monaco, duchess of Valentinois, 34, only daughter of Monaco's Prince Louis II: Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior, 37, born Count de Polignac, crowned Prince Grimaldi of Monaco at his 1920 wedding; in Monte Carlo. Grounds: some Monaco republicans wanted Prince Pierre for President. To get Louis II's permission for divorce, Charlotte signed over her hereditary rights to the throne to her only son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand...
...estate. He chairmans the boards of Pan American Airways and Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. He has two children by his first wife, Marie Norton, whose No. 2 husband is Poloist William Averell Harriman. His present wife, the former Gwladys Hopkins of Philadelphia, is niece of the Marquise de Polignac, races hunters, has been presented at Buckingham Palace. Long Island plain folk last week followed the young couple's entourage, rubbed elbows with them as often as possible, listened to Candidate Whitney declare the campaign issues were too complex to be discussed briefly. Candidate Whitney endorses the entire Democratic platform...
...light-colored gloves with black points. Even in summer, for fear of catching cold, he wore a heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when...