CHIFFON AND CHAMPAGNE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400330002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 21, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Chiffon and C,`-ta-Trnpagne
By Ruth WT gne,-
EVERYBODY LOVES a fashion show,
it seems, if it takes place at the French
Embassy with the blessing of the gay and
glaliioi?uiis`Mme. Herve Alphand, and has
dancing afterward.
Ambassador and Mme.. Alphand used
just that formula on Friday evening when
the embassy was the setting for the fan-
tastic fashions of Pierre Cardin.
Ilalt the audience of several hundred
was male, a good percentage of them VIPs
from ambassadors to cabinet members, but
they all watched with fascination the
L
skinny,
pale-lipped big-eyed models
who
walked
and spun quickly through
the
rooms
in chin-muffling scarf suits,
bat-
winged
coats, shifty crepe and chiffon
cocktail
dresses, feather-trimmed hostess
pajamas and evening gowns a-glitter with
beads.
After an interlude of Champagne and
canapes, the emphasis shifted from fashion
to fc.ut,ti oik, as Devron and his orchestra
tuned up for dancing. The mannequins'
in their finale costumes became animated
to join in enthusiastically.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED: cJA?di- before the start of the Cardin fashion
rector John A. McCone looks merely genial show, b ii. whatever he is telling her must
as `he mbia S is Robe t I eniioidy just be the ?unnicst thing she had heard.
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