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Died. Mme. Jeanne Lanvin, 79, dean of Paris dressmakers and stylesetters, creator of the sensationally successful robe de style (close-fitting bodice, full, sweeping skirt), first couturière to become a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in Paris...
...dress for a museum. Its lustrous white satin billowed from the waist into a crinoline that coruscated with flowers of pearls and leaves of gold. Shim mering gold-and-pearl-embroidered lace swathed the noble bodice, gold and pearl paillettes festooned the ample skirt. It cost...
...only six inches high, and at first glance her flounced skirt, wasp waist, bare breasts and triple crown looked comically ahead of the fashion. She had roamed the Mediterranean with Cretan pirates. She was reportedly worshiped from Asia Minor to Spain as the eternally virgin mother of all things, the new moon, full moon and old moon, whose baby boy (the sun) went down to death each year. All life was supposed to flow from her inexhaustible breasts...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek opened his first press interview since last December by shaking hands with the foreign newsmen. Then he relaxed in an armchair. Madame Chiang, in black jacket and maroon skirt, sat on his right; occasionally she helped affable Information Minister K. C. Wu with the interpreting. While tea was served, questions & answers were passed...
...caught the eye of a cabaret owner, who took her inside, made her sing in her threadbare skirt and sweater. After her first song there was a sepulchral silence. "A thousand thoughts went through my mind," she says. "Did my miserable appearance make them feel ashamed?" Then the hall broke into a long thunder of applause. Maurice Chevalier rose to his feet and cried: "Elle en a plein le ventre, la môme" ("The kid's got plenty of stuff...