Paris,
is humming:
THumming with people,
and humming with ideas.
And today I report to you on some of the more prov vocative people...and their ideas.
name:
The Brat is one of the greatest influences behind the famoELS and their faces.... and one of the least known.
Hix
Alexandre. A man who moulds the shape of the faces of people like Greta Garbo, the Duchess of Windsor, Qonials, Queen Boraya, Mme. and Mme, Niarchos,
He is becoming Paris's most fashionable hairdresser.
THE ODDS
AND he has something to say A which will surprise every women. Let me quote him:
"Every wom looks better with short hair there are only five women in a hundred that it does not suit."
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
PARIS IS MY PARISH.
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REPORTING TO YOU REGULARLY FROM THE CITY THAT 18 THE EMBLEM OF 'SPRING-ZING'
The Windsor hairdresser says
'Cut it short'
"It may appear she has the same style because she likes to part her hair in the middle, but sh follows the mode, and each time I create something new i udapt it for her.
The style is in the detail," be said. "
ench create for something different." There was a pause. "After all that is what they pay me for:
Veman
The Princess Soraya-sho fallows the inhinn very closely. Maherance oľ Baroda. The She has a strong personality, If custom is convincing evi- lut she takes my advice. They dence of this claim, he has 1:- all do
"Julleite Mine," "This morning 1 cut
short, short, Niarchos's hair and now," with a flash of the for sclasore, "I am waiting
bas Jel Mme. Onassis. Sho her hair grow longer, but I ain waiting for her and I shall cul At all off. Well, perhaps quite all.
Greco? Well, yes. her hair is still long, but it is part of her stage personality. But cut her fringe."
How hus Alexandre risen to the top? Says he-
DWC everything to the
Windsor. not
The te Princess Fazlic, who is going to marry the King of Iraq, I cut her hair short too. She is very, very shy."
1 osired Alexandre about the Duchess of Kent's hair style which. I suggested, had remain.
ed unchanged to some time.
Duchess of
She launched me and recom: mended me to her friends. It all started in 1945 in Cannes, I was introduced to the Duchess and I started to do her hair regularity. The
Duchess
then
Alexandre
'I create for each woman something different.
After all,
they pay me.'
U.S. debs move in
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marriageable American girls, all undoubtedly with good figuren, long legs, and nice fat bank balances, all coming to Paris at the same time.
arms to a flood of American Heiresses."
mumma.
de
by
Joan
Harrison
dollars (about £380) a 'head. This includes a "suitable" young Frenchman as nu escort and a dancing partner chosen from the ranks of St Cyr military school, the Polytechnique, one of the Rnob mon's colleges in France, and the Sorbonne law school..
GEORGES CRAVENNE THE CIAR. OF PARIS
1
who, when I caw them, were all running at the doublu,
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Two of Paris's top dress- narwering phones, ond getting makers, Jacques Helm nns the boss of to Cannes, Lanvin Castillo have best "headquarters."
roped in to design white ball" 1 nsked hlm hta
dresses, for the Americans nuwe French committeo, headed by the Duchesse de Maille and the Duchesso de Brissac, will ro- ́ecive the girls.
Sp. It will be Versalles Instead of Buckinghang Paluce for this year's crop of Ameri- cop debs and a endet from Sl
· Cyr instead of,a Mayfair debs' delight.
THE MAN THEY ALL WANT TO-SEE.
THEY. call
1. felt there was some- TFC George thing to be said for the in- Paris because he is the dignant French
man who pulls the strings For the American
behind all the big Paris first HE French Rociety
butanter' committee has
nights and galas. woman with two "de's"
"And we, like imbeciles, been busy organising a to her name (in France if you are Madame de Blank it guarantee to provide young coming-out ball for young girls from Frenchmen from the right American means you come from a families to Act na their wealthy families at the titled family.
If you have
escorts.
Palace of Versailles in July. two "de's" you are very noble indeed) looked at me fixedly, then let loose a flood of indignation.
As if it not already dificult enough to find suitable young men for our ONE Hundred And Twenty suggested that I came to Paris, "Really," she said, "it is young girls without making are coming at a cost to
worse by opening our their
and she arranged things so that I could do so."
100
much, A
hundred it
parents
of
1,100
He ends out the invitations for the first nights, desjäet who shall be asked and where they shall it behind-the- scenes, ezar-of cafe society.
Short, slocky, grey-haired, with a beautiful im star wife
Francoise Arnoul) 20 years younger than himoolf, Georges Cravenne barricades himself, behind three devoted secretaries
secret
formula for keeping the peace among the competing celebrities be Arst in the in the rush to bay souls.
Simply, it was this;-
"I try do like everyone-and that.
mda, is hard work and requires lots of conconfra- Hen."
TAILPIECE
Page
MAUREEN
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FOLLOWS MOTHER
37"-26"-37"
• QUICK_alimpses of the bl: TOLLOWING is spother's foot.
names of fashion
stepa, Maurei Shelley at BALENCIAGA Bays: "Women 10 is our newest teenage mo
Irene Bonton. del. Motter, who want to see my dresse
37in.-28.87in., has beat mo- nut of curiosity don't interesi delling for years, even since me." In each of his print she won a glamour competition, fold summer collections is ons dress ho has cut, and sewn entirely himself.
GIVENCHY keeps dix Afghan
preyhounds.
The woman he
to dress more than anyone
elso-Audrey Hepburt,
chain-smoker, hardly ever seen CASTILLO OF LANVIN is h
without one in his mouth. Ele only
of smakes half
cach cigarette and lights a 'fresh one before he has stubbed out the old.
He han just anlashed, designing
wardrobe - fog
Claudetto
Colbert, who is retuming to the New York slage in September
play with Charles Boyer; 4
In
Maureen (32.-21-35in.) says: "How lucky I am to have a model mother." She gives me · all the tips,"
Both are red-heads with blue eyes and Mt. Ok, tall. They
share a tiny London flat and
all the domestle chores.
has
"First, thing WYB do every evening efter work,"! saya mother, "is pop on the kettin for a cup of tea and put our feet up."
Maureen For spring, chosen this -up-to-the-minute "Irapeze"-ne dress in oatmeal sailor and long apricot gloves. wool, with a matching
Mother has chosen the sama. shade in a slim-skirted sult with the now loose hack.
SITAW
[London Epress Service),
The first brushless mascaral
I'm off to New York-and
I haven't a
Says Veronica Papworth
I scmehow couldn't "see" me short of time and m
FRANTIC and wild-eyedi, short shirt огд partiy
patience, I spent the first
lefed bag,
thing to wear
"They even have 'chemise
So I went out in search of my hair styles and chemise shoes" chemise and I think I must have she reported "It'a chemises iried on every chemise in town). everywhere,
By the end of the day I fell "Frankly I think they loathe like it anyway. them but they are wearing thent. Maybe just as a conver- - not sutton plece. The women love talking about their clothes aud the men love talking about their women,"
I guess I'd have been contear half of last week rushing to leave. It at thul, had
round in circles, crying
as women have cried ever since Eve put two fig leaVER together and found that they wouldn't quile meet to make 魏 brasalers “I HAVEN'T A THING TO WEAR."
Hardly true (It seldom is' is it?), but with four days to go before salling for New York I suddenly dis- covered a great yawning gap in my wardrobe.
Walting somewhere
to all
it was a CHEMISE dress.
Kean though I am on being # jump ahead of the other gals, It's a line I've, jo far, slde stopped.
High fashion it undoubleday! Is, but, for myself, I've never been able to take it seriously.
Chemie Rule No. 1-
High necklines.
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How could I hope to conquiet the new world chemiseless?
How even to start up a con- versalion in last season's sact
Couture ones and cheap ones. Iulian, French, and Swlas ones,
B
Chemise Rute No. 2-
Big hate
I saw myself hovering on the bringes of endless parties like the girls In those depressing Amerlean ads: "Why doesn't somebody tell her her WAIST long oner is showing."
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and short ones, Nowered ores and Buffy ones.
sold my "Frankly, darling,” from favourite designer, the chemise Add to this a report photographer Roy Round who does as little for you as it does flew off abend of meShort for any other woman' dress-designer Mrs Gretel Lenz chemise - shoped baby doll
The stores were out for a kil called me up on her return front dresses stole the show at the
"Олса madame bas the States with the news that April in Paris' ball over here.
uccustomed herself to it." the women over there have gone
everyone, was "You've only to meal a
tev Tabre around and you'll gain confidence,
all out for this newest of new looks.
"Hideous but talking about them."
TRY THESE STAND-IN SALADS
LETTUCE
Balod
!
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CHOOSE a big hat-not neces«
Chemise Rule No. 3-
Loose hot style.
carlly wide brimmed but hattu (B).
runs a placard on the costume jewellery counter at Harrods.
And here they are- or zeven rows to "fill you in."
You could, of course, do rohat I have done.
You could take one steady look at yourself and ery **What am I? Woman of Worm? I WON'T wear a chemise. It is rumoured that business is not too brick in the fashion world-and no wonder.
I le simply that women faced with the most devastatingly un- attractive line ever let loose from Paris, can't make up their minds to plunge.
They know they'll hate it.
EXPERIMENT with an im- Take my advice, unless you portant hair style="pools, are five foot eight or more with bangs, and bouffant curls," says euch great big dreamy sycs Iliche. If you don't poot it up that nothing else matters, insift you'll look pin-headed."
(C),
on some kind of a waist. No I've drawn the difference.
matter how slight, TRY lashings of beads.
It's no chemises "For the ""filled-in' _look" Papworth-NO BIR.
for Miss
A CHEEKY ARTIST GETS
I do so enjoy the role of this Average Customer.
“CLAUDE
AWAY WITH IT
VIRGIN
AND scanty-haired man
In a blocks Ụ FRIEND" is the title of overcoat, holding a birdcage, for
·Just⋅ n In fact. I doubt if anyone is one of the willlest portraits in his Academy entry? niate average than I am. Five this year's Academy. I took piece of pleforini snook-cocking heela vital tea with the artist Donald Cam--I didn't think they'd like t feet alx in my
mell after the proview an' Merion is more in their line (hud) statisties, 35, 20, 3014.
listened sympathetically as he you know. Such bad good taste." Which is why I pass my told me of his life and hard-
times.
The altter, Mr Virgli, lau Andings on to you all
Mr
noti tomato over as many as you can between the folds of a clean are expensive, but they find in the garden, so that ten-towel. Pat to dry. are not the only good salad they will draw up with love-
Dress generously with foods. Try Instead raw root ly slendered leaves, Remove
If you are my height or less "I've done my best to live photographer on a glossy, ma and you insist on a chomise down my past," said he in exine. dressing vegetables, shredded carrot, the pot for a day so that the your own favourite "boiled"
Change you must wear your drem to hushed voice"and, I don' His friend Monty is turnip and beetroot, dressed leaves can become green the slaw's appearance and cover your kneecap plus one think anyone mentions it any Cammell's own canary, with one part lemon juice again.
"They really are the greatest flavour with additions like ich.
You must also pick a drea What is his grim secret? He of friends. Claude is always or viitegar, and three or four
raw- carrot, A young tender cabluige shredded
with a high, wide neckline.
VGA once one of Annigoni's photographing her. pants olive oil, with salt and
maltes n. wonderful cold chopped green onlong, and
most successful pupils. I rym pepper and silvers of horse radish. All are better raw. slaw, and it takes kindly to apple peel cored and cut
pathised--and I meant it. Immaginative additions, into small strips.
more."
"Yet, it's the old story. thought Monty was 'a he untit she fuld on ega," she
Add chopped chives and Start by cutting slander I like a dessert pear pursjoy, not too fine. Plant strips frun: the tenderest treated the samo way() a window-box with chives ieaves, but use some of the and parsley if you have no cutor green once for the Caruway and colory code that your dress must have an Laurie Newton Sharpe, Martha dinmands, and hair like
stardon.
sake of vitamin C. Youngdandelion leaves Put the leaves in cold should not be regarded as water for a half-hour, to' Weeds, Flaco a flowerpot crisp, drain them and place
aro -well established addi- tions.
MELEN, BURKE --London Arpresa: Marvice),
That way there will bo enough Bluff between collar Fone and patella to give you Now as a portrait painter with length.
a very different technique he We talked of the "photo Ive drawn the differences has had considerable success graphlo" school of painting With his, pletures of such "Some women want every silich The second Important point is booutien na Bronwyn Pugh, on the dress, avery facet of the. isido elesile round the wafat., Kits, and Sue Bardolph,
aliampoo ad. Thảm holdà the front flat and Currently he is painting the "But that's the obvious side gives you some shapes and Hon. Robert Braking's wife of a woman to
The third important point in Kathry
must get beyond SAMARANTHAM: artist “that you thuist davala "whole lot Why did he pick this slightly mű thitomist go deeper for p. {at @by6+lavaliteed
strange, lively picture bluem aitabase.”
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