Kevin & Christina: You gave one Bohan for Dior gown to Cecil Beaton for ‘Fashion: an Anthology’, an exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum in 1971. He loved his horses and he went to the country. To work with Marc was really very special. Well, I think he was my favourite designer aside from the fact that my husband said, ‘You’re buying at Dior because Jacques Roüet understands credit!’ Everything that Marc did was so… for me. Kevin & Christina: Who was your favourite couture designer?īetsy: Marc Bohan at Dior. And Saint Laurent was eventually up the street. I loved that hotel because it was all very convenient.
Oh, Givenchy was around the corner from the Plaza Athénée. But this was the sort of old-fashioned way. There might be background music, and there was somebody saying it was number so and so, number such and such, and you wrote it down. And then later on, your name might be on the chair as got bigger but in the beginning you sat in a little chair where they told you to sit. When you would go into the entrance you were seated. ‘Have you seen Balmain?’ ‘Have you seen Chanel?’ and this, that, and the other. We’d have lunch and then we’d go to the couture shows at three o’clock. The whole way everything was done was so different in those days. Christian Dior looks today on the avenue Montaigne exactly as it looked when I started there which was some years ago, but the interior is completely different. Now maybe it’s fun again, I don’t know, because I haven’t done it for about ten years. Kevin & Christina: What was it like to go to the couture shows?īetsy: It used to be so much fun. And so from then on I was interested in Paris couture. So I said, ‘Alright’ and he said, ‘Alright’ and they sent the croquis and I picked out one or two dresses and I just loved them. You can’t have her just wearing anything, she has to have beautiful clothes in Paris,’ and so on and so forth. She met my husband, and she said, ‘Your wife must be dressed by Balmain. Kevin & Christina: How did you become interested in haute couture?īetsy: There was a lovely lady, Ginette Spanier – I love that name, and she was the directrice of Balmain. And they had fun getting things for me, because I was the only child. I think it’s always been something for me from the time I was a baby. So I loved doing that – I loved getting dressed up.
Kevin & Christina: What are your earliest memories of fashion?īetsy: My mother always said that whenever they entertained, I always wanted to pass around the appetisers so I could put on my fancy party dress and be helpful. Betsy Bloomingdale in her garden in 1973, courtesy of W Magazine.
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