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European exiles who arrived last week to take up temporary residence in the U. S.: Elsa Schiaparelli, Parisian couturiere (to lecture and get some clothes-she "hasn't a hat to her name"); Madame Josef Beck, wife of Poland's onetime Foreign Minister (now "somewhere in Rumania"); ex-Empress Zita of Austria and her youngest daughter. Archduchess Elisabeth (more ex-royal children to follow later); French Composer Darius Milhaud (Le pauvrc Matelot) with his wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred...
...costuming is deserving of mention. The lavish gowns of the "feminine" leads remind one of Schiaparelli's best. It is surprising how mere draping can lend a seductive enchantment to a mere male form. The show, as a whole, is an embryonic Rodgers and Hart production...
...Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said for it. was another affirmation that the world still looked to Paris for a way to live, even as it was looking elsewhere...
Such reports from the opening of Paris fashion shows have grated on Nazi ears for the past fortnight as Schiaparelli followed Mainbocher, and Paquin, Patou and Balenciaga demonstrated that, whoever runs the world, Paris intends to go on making his wife's clothes...
...Uncle to Paris Dress-Designer Elsa Schiaparelli...