Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your March 22 story on the identity of Yves Saint-Laurent's angel, Atlanta Businessman J. Mack Robinson, was in fact an earlier exclusive by one of our papers, Women's Wear Daily...
...hard to find"). Too often, unhappily, the film is cute where the play was poetic, too often Director Joseph Strick permits his performers to natter what they are intended to intone. But moments of lurid lyricism survive, and vestiges of atavistic ritual. Genet is not, pace Sartre, a sick saint. He is a perfectly healthy witch doctor, and when he chooses he can cast a potent spell...
...months, the rumors have been flying around Paris that the fashion house of Yves Saint-Laurent was being backed by Swiss interests. In France's most sacred national industry,that was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the awful truth.Already irritated at the incursions of U.S. industry and investment into France, the French learned last week that Saint-Laurent's backer is none other than an American: J. Mack Robinson, 39, an Atlanta insurance executive (Delta Life). Robinson was the secret patron who supplied financial backing for Saint-Laurent to start a dress house...
Robinson, a reserved and soft-spoken fellow, started out far from fashion - as a car salesman - and later moved into life insurance and real estate. Searching for investments in Europe, he was introduced to young Saint-Laurent, who had been Christian Dior's heir apparent before he was called up by the French army and lost his position at the House of Dior to Marc Bohan. Stranded at 25, he was eager to design on his own. Robinson advanced him the funds, but has stayed out of the fitting rooms. "I am completely ignorant of fashion," he says...
Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates...