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...tomers. He is Manhattan's aging Mainbocher, 75, born Main Rousseau Bocher in Chicago-and his dresses can be seen on "CeeZee" Guest and "Babs" Paley. But the wave of the future really lies with the younger designers who produce ready-to-wear. To Marc Bohan of Christian Dior in Paris, California's puckish Rudi Gernreich, 44, is the standout. No designer for conformists, he will go all out to make his point, reaped a whirlwind of publicity in 1964 with his topless bathing suits. He only sold 3,000, but everyone has paid attention to him ever...
...insist today that it does. They point out how many times in recent years U.S. designers have shown the way. St. Laurent's "pop art" dresses this year look much like U.S. teen-age fad dresses of last summer. The hit of Bohan's collection for Dior this July was the "Doctor Zhivago" long coat, coupled with a short-skirted suit; yet the U.S.'s Gernreich showed the same style in 1963, and half a dozen other American designers showed it in 1965 and May 1966. "Paris has no longer got what we go to look...
...sensation was Dior's Marc Bohan. AGENT PROVOCATEUR, headlined Women's Wear Daily, which had a full day's scoop on the Dior collection. Stalking down Dior's ramps, models swaggered in mid-calf-length capes and military greatcoats that could have stepped right out of Doctor Zhivago. True, underneath, Bohan had his models in guillotine-hemmed up-and-down dresses or knee-length double-breasted suits, but the challenge to the high-rise hem was obvious. "Something had to be done about the length," said Bohan. "They couldn't get any shorter-and besides...
Might the big result be a "New Look" similar to the one Christian Dior inaugurated back in 1947, when dresses plunged to midcalf? There was resistance. "The uneven hemline-sexy and stunning-will influence fashion, and so will the long coats-but not yet," said the Ohrbach buyer. "His timing is off." Said Bonwit's buyer, gazing at the long coats: "We're not ready for that sort of thing." For the British, the hemline dropped like a bomb. "It would be fatal!" cried one British designer. "I've just made my spring collection-all short. Shops...
...greatest métier. At Paris' Orly Airport last week, he snipped a ceremonial ribbon at the boarding ramp of the blue and white Boeing 707 jet inaugurating the transatlantic service of his Olympic Airways. He even bore gifts for the 140 passengers-key rings for the men, Dior perfume and pins for the women. And the next morning, as the jet returned from New York, "Ari" the airman again formed a one-man welcoming committee. "Onassis follows the move ments of his tankers from his yacht and from his home by an occasional telex message," says Olympic Deputy...