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A married man at Dior...what I hope he will do

By JILL BUTTERFIELD ·

[UST how do you resel to the

latest Faris fashions? I you're the average husband I guess it's with snort of “Wish the Lan who thought that one up had to live with £1," Well, cool down under your collar because for the first time in French fashion a leading designer will have to do just that. Recently the great house of Dlor unounced the secret It has guarded like the Koh-I- noor since its designer Yves St. Laurent Answered the bugle call.

It has nominated his successor as chief designer of the £5,000,000 a year Dior com- plex.

And this new appointment is

about the biggest news from the house of Dior since his New Look enlightened our rab utility lives after the

war.

Reason

As I see it, the new master In the Avenue Montaigne, 35- year-old. Mare Bohan, has the attributes to sputnik him to

the summit,

HE TRAINED in the hard school of soft carpeted salons -under such well-established designers 03 Patou and Piguet

HE TRIED his Inexperienced wings for a short, timme alone In the fashion world.

tho

HE TRIUMPHED

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But the reason I applaud this

now appointment is a simpler, more basle one, thôn any of these. Mare Bahan is A married man-and a father.

The others

Consider the other designers who set the Paris fashion pace,

PIERRE CARDIN 19 35—wildly attractive, with impeccable nusiners and little-boy charTD, But even Paris, where they see a romance in every meat- In has seldom laked his namo with a pretty girl; (A ANTONIO DEL CASTILLO· É Spanish-born-rich and muc- cessful, But although he's a popular host, there is seldom a hostess by his side at his sparkling parties,

HUDERT DE GIVENCHY 15 33

-with a host of friends ameng Paris's smart young set, an order book glittering with International names, and an old-established ütle to boot. But nobody's daughter has got him to the altar. Seldom do any of the couturiers see their designs further than the salon deor,

But young M. Bohan will have

to live with them.

Alone, he will have to take that gay little dress with the so- daring hemline he thought up in an inspired moment, out to dinner.

Alone, he will have to bundle the 70-odd yards of stiffened tulle which looked divine on the drawing board into a seat at the stalls.

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