THIS DESIGNING TRIO WASN'T ALL IN ACCORD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200240015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 16, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release_ @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200240015-6
HION NOTEBOOK
This Designing Trio fI
Wasn't All in A9cord
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?? By ELENI
Silt' Fashion Writer , Several hundred distin-
The woman from Rome t. guished W a s t o n
' took . issue .with two of her turned out for the cocktail,
? male designing colleagues%. event. Nearly all-went through
?: last night ?on the question.' the receiving line headed by
r? ,ask ':Are wome ANWC President' Alice T.
:better designers for wom ? Curran, the . designers, . and
' thad men?",t? - ' Elinor Griest, second vice
Micol Fontana .said a president of the club. Many
woman knows "much' more I of the women came wearing
1, what to wear and does not designs of either Balmain,
? design clothes that are: "so , Fontana or Scaasi.
Crazy-looking." Challenging Mrs. Wiley. Buchanan was
her 'stand at the American ' overheard? telling Perle
. ? Newspaper Women's Club Mesta that her Fontana
'Summit Conf erence on dress wattthe same one she'd
Ashion". wei,t1 Pierre . Bal- Worn in 'Luxembourg when
. main of P,a,ris ? and Arnold she was there visiting. "It
,Scaa.si of New .York, . still looks pretty and in style,"
? . Said Balmain, "When a? said Mrs. Mesta.
? designer is a bachelor, he : A surprise model during the
can design for all women. : fashion ? show was Bonnie
I've noticed that ? married , Buchanan, who wore a Fon-
men with their tana gown. Another surprise
wives in mine Take, 'for ex- came when Annette Culler,
Amk, ample, the late;Jacques Faffi's program chairman of the
-1 Genevieve. and Marcel Ro-. ANWC, introduced Gioia Fon-
? chas' Helene,,,,I. agree with tana, twenty-year-old niece
the statement: that men of Micol and the newest
' should dress :women becv4 addition to the House of Fon-
: they are more objecti tana. It was founded by
Women knowlhe details of Amabile Fontana and is now
I. fashion but these are just run by her daughters in
details," the charming French
member of the couture stated.
. Arnold Scaasi, the 1958
winner' of the coveted Ameri-
can Fashion Critics' Award?
paid a backhanded tribute
to his, feminine designing
colleagues 'by saying,"No one
' looks, better, in Pauline Tri-
' gere's 'clothes' than Pauline."
? He added gallantly, "and
. Signora Fontana" who wore
, a graphic velvet coat over a
matching short-evening dress
' of graphite gray velvet and ?
.! shoes and handbag to match
that she had designed.. He
feels women designers inevi-
? .tably design in their own
image.
The verbal fireworks ex=
ploded after, a, showing of
six df 'each oi the 'designer's
fashions. All were widely ap?
plauded. When Scaasi's, first'
design a blue wool T-square
? coat with the widened should- ,
er-look came out, he appeared,
stunned. Re said, "I .,believe
40. in short skirts but not 'that
? short". and prOceeded to re- i
: call the model and -yank the
, dress down a bit', which,
amused the audience no end.
- Their Styles 11,'
Rome,
vann
ter
ol, Zoe and Gio-
ioia is Zoe's daugh-
, Busy Day
Yesterday was a busy day
for the designing contigent,
,They were received- by Mrs.
Dwight D. :Eisenhower at the
White House at, 12:30 p.m.
At 11 cm. they had a Wash--
ington-style press conference.
At 1 p`.m. there' Was .a lunch- ?
eon at the Italian Embassy. ,
Radio and television inter-
views followed in the after-
noon and then the party
given by the ANWC at 6 p.m.
-All three designers were .
delighted to see- Mrs. Eisen-
hower looking so well. Said
Balmain, "We are old
friends." Said Signora Fon-
tana "She's lovely.", Said
Scaasi, "Seeing Mrs. Eisen-
hower wearing that burgundy
dress convinces me that when
its a tos.s up between black
and white arid' color, color
wins out," ? ?
-Chatting animatedly during
_
the ktai1 hour whic
preceded the showing, held in 1
xvei*e Zady I.e?Vis,? Mr. and
th Sheraton-Park'
e's' ballroom, i
Mrs. Eugene \Rietike, Mr. t
and ? Mr?Sc, Grecttkass, the
Myron Cowens, Mid Mrs. ;
Frank ?HeCh Mr.L Coulter'
Huyier, PrStori- !Wife;
Mrs. Lescieloould,,i::Ctili and
Mrs., M. Robert Gnigenhe'im ?
JainesTiL. -}I'Pughteling,
Mist Eliza:6th .
Jean Haubes, - IvidC'e.-%avoty,
Mrs.' Arthur E. ? Summerfield,
Mrs. Edson 0. -Sessions, Mrs.
Martin, Vogel,' 'Marcella. M!II
duPont:.? Mrs. Wilber M.
'Brucker, Mme. Vi?.;11erve Al-
phand, and Mrs' Charles
mit.16,..1111PuiesoomPo-
Cabell an Idig7r- drUghte.rid'il.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200240015-6