Fashion: Tribute to Louis XIV

The most fashionable hair stylist in France, and possibly in the whole world, first drew international attention at the 1955 wedding of Princess Ira von Fürstenberg and Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg in Venice. Leaning over to give the princess' hairdo a final fluff, he fell into the Grand Canal. But that header was nothing to the splash created by Alexandre of Paris last week when Jackie Kennedy arrived in France. With his careful fingers and soaring imagination, Alexandre transformed the girlish casualness of Jackie's usual hairdo into a piece of elaborate and queenly...

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