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...female wails of "But there's nothing for me!" are rapidly fading. From the U.S. collections, a woman can find something sparkling and appropriate for an embassy reception or dinner at the Colony-done in the elegant American style. Counsels Vogue's Diana Vreeland: "The days of fashion dictatorship are dead as mutton. Each of us has the opportunity for everything -to dress with individuality, suitability, gaiety, comfort, chic. You have only to take the opportunity-to use the New York collections for all they are worth...
Sniffs Vogue Editorial Director Alexander Liberman: "An artificial issue. I think most designers are happy to be part of an avant-garde development-though some undoubtedly prefer the more static, conventional photograph." Says Vogue's Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland: "I've never heard of any criticism and never heard of any argument...
...Hervé Alphand. For the Opera Ball, the capital's top social event of the season, the French embassy garden was transformed into a tented version of Maxim's in Paris. Party regulars (Vice President Humphrey, Lynda Bird) and regular partygoers (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart) were all there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough, was provided by the orchestra of society's pet pianist, Peter Duchin...
...Smartest-looking stuff in the world," said Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland. "It improves the look of a girl's skin, raises the eye high." Since it is as impermeable as rubber, it can raise the temperature rather high too, and during the coming months the wet look may spread from many a girl's coat to her countenance...
...scoop than meets the eye. The giddy excitement of the St. Laurent show in Paris is partly real, partly a tempest in a B cup. Manhattan store windows and women's magazines were already chock-full of the new trends. Long before summer, Vogue Editor Diane Vreeland and best-dressed Viscountess Jacqueline de Ribes of fashion's Hall of Fame were wearing above-the-knee textured hose to all the best places-which automatically decrees the shape of things to come...