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Hutton's start in modeling was almost accidental. She was in New York, intending to leave for Africa on a whim, when she answered an ad for a house model at Christian Dior's salon. "I conned them into thinking I had modeled before," she says. "I just watched the other girls do their pirouettes and imitated them." The job was hers-at $50 a week. Not everybody was so cooperative, however...
...like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time and let the audience in on the secret," she says. "It's like giving a party and I am the Grande Hostesse. I always wanted to be Gertrude Stein and have a salon...
...Rome, Christina Ford and Actor Helmut Berger were among those who turned up at Valentino's salon, newly decorated with mirrored ceilings. Presumably resigned to the realities of urban smog, the designer has given up on white for coats, showing tones that range from golden beige ("oat") through bottle green. Those without fur collars were finished off with a fringed wool challis square folded in a triangle around the neck. Valentino's most famous client, Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, visited Rome before the collection had been completed for preview; she ordered some clothes from drawings and will...
...name chosen to confuse its rickety little venture with the mighty AT&T. When Hernand died in 1933, Sosthenes became the undisputed master, "the Prince of Telephones" as he came to be known. At his New York headquarters, he worked in a Louis XIV salon with a portrait of Pius XI on the wall. Haute cuisine for 200 in the private dining room was not uncommon...
...with patrons for its casino, restaurants and nightclubs. Since Jan. 1, some 70,000 camper-customers have been boosting the hotel's business. The parking lot itself contains a small swimming pool, bathhouse and laundry room, where women campers who have just been coiffed at the Stardust beauty salon compare notes on the evening's entertainment along the Strip...