 With her new husband Sigvard, Bernadotte met Pierre Balmain in Paris in 1962.She became particularly close and lifelong friends with Balmain and with his successor Erik Mortensen, and they as well as several other French houses of "haute couture" often for publicity dressed the easily fitted Bernadotte in their latest work.In 1985 Marianne Bernadotte was named one of the 10 best dressed women in the world, by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris alongside Gina Lollobrigida, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg and Gersende d'Orléans.