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...workroom belongs to two sprightly grandes dames who are known collectively as Chez Ninon, a small and very expensive dress salon that was costly and exclusive long before it became famous as one of Mrs. Kennedy's favorite dress shops. The only difference now is that Proprietresses Nona McAdoo Park and Sophie Meldrim Shonnard, who would be wows in Auntie Mame, are so pleased to have Jackie's business that they flutter and worry that too much public notice will drive Mrs. Kennedy away. There is little chance of that; Chez Ninon has just what Mrs. Kennedy likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Sophie & Nona | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...will export the Bolshoi Ballet, the Leningrad Philharmonic, the Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and, on the seas of friendly strife, they intend to challenge the winner of the 1963 America's Cup twelve-meter-boat race. - Her wardrobe newly enhanced with high-fashion goodies from Manhattan's Chez Ninon (see MODERN LIVING), leopard-coated Jacqueline Kennedy emplaned on a commercial jet for her long-awaited goodwill tour of India and Pakistan. First overnight stop: Rome, where thousands braved forbidding chill and rain to cheer her on rounds that included a formal call on President Giovanni Gronchi and an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 16, 1962 | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...shopping trail wasn't too hard to follow since a leak from the White House last week mentioned the Park Avenue shop, Chez Ninon, and California Designer Gus Tassell as supplying the clothes, along with the official Cassini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Potent Force | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...newshens -down the Ganges awaited sailing orders. And the Taj Mahal, which she will view both by daylight and moonlight-well, the Taj Mahal, postponement or no, always lives up to its advance billing. For her part, the First Lady was packing trunkloads of clothes by Cassini, Chez Ninon and Tassell. She had got shots for cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, typhoid and tetanus-without getting sick. She had conscientiously boned up on the customs of India and Pakistan. Only one question remained: Would her health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Matter of Health | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...Technicolor. Playing the skittish wife of a Napoleonic general occupying a northern Italian town in Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie, busty Martine bounces about in a low-cut bodice, splashes nudely in a shell-shaped bathtub, flits from moonlit gardens to candlelit bedrooms in a minimum of ninon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Cardinal & Caroline | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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