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...influence of women not as models, but as makers and marketers of clothes. Designers like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Donna Karan and Jil Sander conjured entire fashion universes and great fortunes with ideas that revolutionized the way women dressed. Madeleine Vionnet reshaped the silhouette with her bias cut one seam coiling around the body and enhanced 1930s screen stars' sex appeal. Claire McCardell's Popover dress answered the sartorial prayers of '50s housewives all across America. And with the simple invocation to "feel like a woman, wear a dress," Diane von Furstenberg sent 300,000 women rushing...
...There should be no bias against age, but you must be prepared to let younger professors on,” says Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh Narayanamurti, adding that the FAS is currently working on ways to reevaluate the use of space by individual professors...
...nearly four decades ago, as part of the “strike” Class of 1969, many of my classmates had a very grand sense of the possible. Sure, we had problems—the men had the Vietnam-era draft, and the women faced far worse gender bias than now—but we were confident we could fix those problems. Our biggest dreams had little to do with money, and a lot to do with grand causes and personal journeys into the arts, teaching or elsewhere...
...press has a built-in bias for conflict and keeping the contest going,” Auletta said. “Somehow we felt licensed to step out of our fair and balanced world and mock this...
Scoop A. Wasserstein ’07, who is also a Crimson editor, thought that Auletta brought up important points about media bias...