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Through two previous deferments. Paris' willowy Couturier Yves Saint-Laurent, 24, boy wonder of the House of Dior, has avoided a 27-month draftee hitch in the French army. The deferments made sense of a sort: Saint-Laurent, a frail fellow, is a key figure in France's fashion industry. But last week the army rejected his third request to stay bivouacked in his salon. On Sept. 1 he will report for his physical examination, presumably soon thereafter be dreaming of furloughs instead of furbelows...
...repeat themselves: Must sensuality grow so coarse, or purity so prudish, or life itself so punishing? But if limited in vital substance, Duel of Angels has considerable style. Christopher Fry has conveyed Giraudoux's gloved, sheathed, scented prose with great adroitness, and Roger Furse's sets and Dior's gowns enhance the provincially elegant atmosphere. If much of the acting is simply competent and Mary Ure in the difficult role of the pure woman suggests mere marble rather than flesh on which ice has formed, Vivien Leigh's errant lady is conceivably the high point...
Daughters Rada, Elena and Julia ogled the spring fashions at Dior's. Nikita himself genially traded stag jokes with French influentials, beamingly invited a handsome girl folk dancer to visit him in Moscow, and clutched to his bosom everything from lambs to schoolchildren. And during a flight in one of France's handsome jet Caravelles, which he vocally admired, he set the hearts of French industrialists aflutter with the offhand statement: "I'll take a dozen to start with...
...Spain and the gaudy funeral that followed in Hollywood, where loud cheers greeted Yul Brynner, as if, by replacing Power in the film, "he was somehow making everything all right." When big bald Yul later arrived in Spain, Sanders cattily reports, he brought along twelve leather suits by Dior (six black, six white) and a retinue of seven stooges, one of whom "was permanently occupied in shaving Brynner's skull...
This year's clothes are simpler and more wearable than in many years. With no single New Look, the fashions show a great deal of variety. Waistlines wander from bust (Laroche) to hip (Dior); necklines are generally bare. Pleats are emphasized in Nina Ricci's dresses and evening gowns. Suits are sometimes only suits, but often, as with Pierre Cardin, they turn out to be dresses with jackets. Several leading houses emphasized lounging pants, among them Dior, which designed a number of lounging costumes for formal evening wear. About the only thing the designers agreed on was that...