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...trend-setting Couturiers Valentino, Forquet, Oscar de la Renta and others have their way, the well-dressed woman will soon look like Bette Davis on The Late Late Show. The new low, low hemline has been officially named the Midi, but many fashionplates have unkinder words for it. "Extraordinarily ugly," said Mrs. William F. Buckley. Opined a Roman beauty: "I hate it, I'm disgusted by it, I think it's horrible" -adding sagely, "If it becomes real fashion I'll adapt myself to it." Said Mrs. Gianni Agnelli: "I only hope the designers put some slits...
...known as Stanley Clifford Weyman was feted as the U.S. Consul General to Algiers, highly praised as Silent Star Pola Negri's private physician and duly appointed Special Deputy Attorney General of New York. In addition-among countless other achievements-he helped handle the arrangements for Rudolph Valentino's celebrated funeral, once addressed a medical convention on "psychiatric treatment in prison institutions" and managed to be received at the White House as an interpreter assigned to a visiting princess from Afghanistan...
During the preparations for the Valentino funeral in 1926, Stanley blew into the Hotel Ambassador carrying a little bag. He knocked at the suite of Valentino's bereaved lover, Pola Negri, told the maid he was a physician and introduced himself to Miss Negri as a close friend of Valentino's. "Rudy would have wanted me to take care of you, my dear," Miss Negri later reported his saying. "You are very thoughtful," she replied...
Vladimir Nabokov. I'm in his league, and I see myself as the best man. Philip Roth. I liked the book but I'd hate to shake his hand. Fashion. My favorite designers are St. Laurent, Valentino and Pucci. But I can't wear Pucci's op prints. My boobs...
Starting at the bottom, her girdle ($15) and bra-slip ($18) are signed by Emilio Pucci, her stockings, a symphony in mesh Vs, by Valentino. On the outside, looking In, there is Gucci's leather-bound shirtwaist dress, interwoven with an all-over pattern of the letter G-with matching luggage, no less. In scarves, conspicuous consumers can go the whole hog with the full names of Rudi Gernreich ($12), Donald Brooks ($22), or Geoffrey Beene ($28), or compromise-as Chester Weinberg did-with a silk strip spelling the first and more esthetic half of his name...