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Article: Clothes Make the Man
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- The Washington Post
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- August 23, 1987
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IN MY OWN FASHION: An Autobiography
By Oleg Cassini
Simon and Schuster. 370 pp. $19.95
AS OLEG CASSINI writes in this self-congratulatory but generally
accurate autobiography, "I have dressed (and undressed) some of the
most significant women of the twentieth century. I have been of
service to American royalty (the Kennedys); I have done well in
business and I have had a life filled with romance, excitement and
glamor."
Cassini was born in the terminal years of Russia's czarist
regime. One of his earliest memories is the shooting of his cousin
by mutinous sailors "just as we were about to go down to tea."
As the first born scion of the Capizzucchi-Cassinis, "descended
from Crusaders on ...