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...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...
...places where a bright woman with ideas, who is content to wear a costume ring instead of a wedding band, can rise to rule the executive suite. Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor until her death at 61 in 1959, was the archetype of the breed. At elegant Henri Bendel, Geraldine Stutz became president at 33, has successfully given her store an aura of yé-yé. Last week able, low-keyed Mildred Custin, 58, took over as president of twelve Bonwit Teller stores that stretch from Fifth Avenue headquarters south to Palm Beach and west to Oakbrook...
This dedication did not escape Maxey Jarman, the Nashville corporate builder whose giant Genesco Inc. (annual sales: $589 million) owns Bonwit's and 63 other apparel companies. Jarman likes to have women executives around: he picked Jerry Stutz for Henri Bendel, also a Genesco subsidiary, and his House of Fragrance perfume and cosmetic company is headed by President Helen Van Slyke. "Women who are interested in a career and have a feminine viewpoint," says Jarman, "usually have intuitiveness as well as good promotion and advertising sense." Casting around for a new boss to replace resigning William L. Smith, Jarman...
When a well-heeled Manhattanite who knows her high fashion goes shopping for footwear, she might choose between three of New York's fanciest shoe salons-I. Miller, Henri Bendel, and the Delman Salon at Bergdorf Goodman. What she probably does not know is that all three are operated by the same manufacturing and retailing giant-Genesco, Inc., of Nashville, Tenn...