Word: ricci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without their perfumes, many of the top French fashion names would simply disappear. Robert Ricci, head of the Nina Ricci firm, openly concedes that his firm could not exist without its worldwide perfume sales. Says he: "It is very difficult to make money out of clothes, and impossible out of haute couture. "High sales volume cannot be achieved with clothes, since no one style can ever have really broad appeal. Perfumes, by contrast, are bought everywhere, in all seasons and by all kinds of people, from secretaries to socialites. L'Air du Temps and other fragrances account...
Some French fashion chiefs are indignant. Robert Ricci complains that the assertive American-type perfumes should "only appeal to jet-setters who want to shock." Lanvin's marketing director, Jean-Louis Delpuech, scoffs that U.S. perfume makers have tended "to go 'down market' to a type of woman who demands more smell for her money." But others are more philosophical about the demand for perfumes with staying power. Robert Young, president of Yves Saint Laurent perfumes, traces the taste for strong fragrances to the same craving for identity that makes people want designer names on their clothes...
...surplus of ivory coming out of the Congo prompted the Belgian government to offer the material free to sculptors. Many accepted, and the ivory statuette soon stood tall in the art deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how exquisite some of these miniature sculptures became. All works pictured here were inspired, in one way or another, by the blithe spirit of American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they...
Catherine Deneuve smiles for Chanel, Margaux Hemingway for Babe, and Victoria Fyodorova for Alexandra de Markoff. For the Paris house of Nina Ricci, it's Andréa de Portago. Andréa Who? Not exactly a household name, Andréa, 26, is an aspiring New York actress and the daughter of the 17th Marquis de Portago, the flamboyant Spanish Grand Prix driver killed in 1957 in Italy's Mille Miglia. While doing the disco scene one night at Manhattan's Régine's, she was spotted by Nina Ricci representatives. They excitedly hired...
...Jesuits rose to eminence in the two centuries that followed Ignatius' death. Seeking to be the consciences of kings, they served as confessors to every French King from Henry III to Louis XV. In 16th and 17th century China, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and his successors labored for decades to impress the Emperor and the powerful mandarin scholars with their own impeccable scholarship, eventually becoming keepers of the imperial calendar. But this opportunity to win China for Christianity was lost when Rome denied the missionaries' pleas that Chinese converts be left undisturbed in their Confucian reverence for their...