Word: bendel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GERALDINE STUTZ President Henri Bendel New York City...
When Amanda Burden was named to the Ten Best-Dressed list last year at the age of 22, she exclaimed, "But I buy everything off the racks at Bendel's." She was doing what comes naturally. No longer does the American society woman depend on Paris to supply her clothes. U.S. fashion can boast an elite handful of internationally famous "name" designers whose clothes, at their best, are as genuinely original as anything Paris has to offer. Lauren Bacall likes almost anything done by Manhattan's Norell, though she feels that Chanel has "a great look...
...deacon and collector of nonobjective painting, built his father's Nashville, Tenn., shoemaking firm into a $760 million-a-year shoe-and-clothing combine called Genesco Inc. As chairman, he controls some 1,500 retail outlets grouped under 50 firms, including I. Miller, Bonwit Teller, Roger Kent, Henri Bendel. Hoving, 68, stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall and looks every inch what he is: the supremely suave chairman of the grand Fifth Avenue jewelers, Tiffany...
...gasped, "did they put me on top of their list? I don't go to Paris to buy my dresses. I buy them off the rack at Bendel's." Had she learned any secrets from her mother? "None at all. We are completely different," said Amanda, who thinks white is her best nighttime color, likes fake jewelry and textured stockings...
...asked my mother who Balenciaga was," said the other surprise winner, Broadway's Barbra Streisand, who showed up in eighth place,* "she would have thought it was a grocery store in Brooklyn." Nor had Barbra (TIME cover, April 10, 1964) got there by the Bendel route; she designs her own clothes-a golden sable coat with a middy collar, a green brocade suit of the same material as her bedroom walls and, for accessories, old beaded bags with real jewel clasps and new shoes with old buckles. The Couture Group liked it, cited her "extraordinary individuality and infallible fashion...