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...Patou's reluctance to start a ready-to-wear line, he abruptly left in 1987, chased by a $13.1 million lawsuit. With Jean-Jacques Picart, a close friend on the business side of Patou, he set up his own house, backed by Agache, the conglomerate that also owns Dior...
Along Beijing's Xiushui Street, merchants in makeshift metal stands plaintively urge shoppers to buy jade-green grapes, bright red Coca-Cola sportswear and Begonia Flower-brand silk lingerie. A balding trader, waving a fan, hawks Christian Dior-label shirts. They cost 100 yuan ($27) abroad, he confides, but his price is only 25 yuan ($6). A real bargain. The yellow license in his stall identifies him as a ge ti hu (private entrepreneur), who sells his wares on the free market...
Marc Bohan, of the house of Dior, predicts that Lacroix, who also designs costumes for dance productions, may eventually tone down his stagy charades. "Lacroix is young and needs to make himself noticed," says Bohan. "With the input from the press and his clients, he will, naturally, evolve." Bohan's own collection is cropped short, but is still traditional. He counts Princess Caroline of Monaco and Nancy Reagan among his clients, and predictably encourages his customers to drop the hemlines of his miniskirts when they come for fittings. Says he: "I can't see Caroline having to struggle...
...everyone on board felt the trip was a complete loss. Many passengers liked the new shops hawking the goods of Gucci, Dior and Dunhill. Others praised the polite crew, understaffed by a last-minute union squabble. But it was not like the old days when Cunard boasted that "getting there is half the fun." Last week jetting there might have been half the hassle...
...family to run the business. De Mouy was all of 29 and determined "to see that, three generations after me, it is still a family house." His plan: install a designer who would restore the house to the pinnacle of fashion. Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Bohan of Dior both spent apprenticeships there, but these young talents eventually moved on. Patou was too conservative then, devoting most of its energy to its lucrative perfumes, especially...