Word: soign
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...Women look as if they were hung in armor," decided Bright-Young-Briton Cecil Beaton (now a greying 43) after a good look at the New Look. "The owner's personality is lost. They look too soignée and immaculate. There's nothing new about it." Photographer-Costumer-Litterateur-Interior Decorator Beaton, who recently designed a new costume for Vivien Leigh (it took him ten minutes, he said), was in Manhattan to "tank up" against another spell of creation back home. He would, as usual, redecorate a hotel suite so that he could live...