Word: tropez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of weeks along the French Riviera on "a strictly private family holiday." With Sons Hamzah, 3, Hashem, 2, and three-month-old Princess Iman in tow, the couple relaxed in a villa near Cannes. To pass the time, they savored ice cream on the terrace of St.-Tropez's chic Chez Sénéquier, sunned aboard a cabin cruiser named Sinbad and supped with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who was also briefly on the Riviera. Well, they only looked like typical tourists...
...former. ("I hate photographers. They don't allow us to live... That's why I can understand wild animals being pursued by men with rifles. Zoom lenses are like weapons.") Today, when she is not campaigning for baby seals, she divides her time between her Saint-Tropez villa and a farm just west of Paris...
...current gilt trip, according to Mirabella, began in the spring of 1980 with French Designer Yves Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear collection. His show included a gold leather skirt and a gold-threaded scarf. The look quickly followed the path of least resistance to Saint Tropez, where gold-brocaded jogging shorts, silver bikinis and gold jackets over denim skirts became as common last summer, says one Saint Tropez shopkeeper, "as button-down shirts on Wall Street...
Twenty minutes by air from Saba, St. Barts is administered as part of a French département-and a swinging outpost of Southern France. Often likened to the Saint-Tropez of 20 years ago, the 8-sq.-mi. island boasts 36 restaurants, French bakeries, discos, wind surfing, sailing, a harbor full of yachts, elegant boutiques and enough local eccentrics to fill a Truffaut film. However, St. Barts-named by Columbus for his brother Bartolomeo-is more than a transplanted French beach resort. It is a beautiful, pastoral island, whose inhabitants-95% of the population of 2,800 are white...