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Questions were also raised about Yves Chalier, the treasurer of Carrefour, who apparently authorized spending $600,000 to buy a 40-room chateau that he later had transferred to his own name...
...greatest designers of this century were Americans--Claire McCardell and Charles James--but, truth be told, there is not a designer on the American scene now who can match Armani's bold finesse, never mind the inventiveness of Issey Miyake, the deluxe grace of Yves Saint Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld, the Zen funkiness of Yohji Yamamoto. The best American design tends to be generic, not designer labeled. It would be hard to find, for instance, a designer who has been influenced by Louis Dell'Olio, but it would be equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that...
When French-speaking Yves Lavigueur, 18, answered the door at his family's house in Montreal one night last week, he found a poorly dressed caller babbling in English and unable to say anything in French. He promptly sent the man packing. But the next night the visitor knocked again, and this time he had a French-speaking person in tow. With his friend's help, William Murphy, 28, explained to Yves's father Jean-Guy, 51, that he had found a wallet belonging to the elder Lavigueur. The unemployed Murphy had anonymously returned the wallet to Jean...
...chains are now getting more than bad news in their monthly bills. Stuffed in with the statements are paper advertising inserts that contain samples of eye shadow. By brushing a fingertip across a colored strip, a woman can try out this season's shades from Charles of the Ritz, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior...
...exhibit, which shows off some 112 costumes on three separate floors, is the museum's way of introducing itself. It will be succeeded in the spring by a show of Yves Saint Laurent, then of Christian Dior. There will be space on the fifth floor for permanent exhibition of items from the museum's collection of more than 10,000 costumes, a few of which date back as far as the 16th century. And there will be a boutique to sell reworkings of famous designer accessories, as well as space to restore clothes. In all, the museum will occupy eleven...