Word: bonwit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suit the venturesome male mood, mod boutiques are proliferating in department stores, from Manhattan's Bonwit Teller and Chicago's Marshall Field to Sakowitz in Houston and Bullock's in Los Angeles. Current symbol of the freer male attitude is the turtleneck pullover now being worn by just about everybody from Lyndon Johnson, who fancies the comfort of turtlenecks for travel aboard Air Force One, to the Duke of Windsor, who slips into one for small, informal dinner parties. To go with tuxedos for evening, turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with...
...version of the Mao in dark blue whipcord. At a recent party given for Manhattan Pop Artist James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin's new $150 Nehru blazer, the Fifth Avenue store sold out its entire stock of 100 jackets the very first...
...Courrèges, 44, had buyers at his latest showing sitting on their hands. But Courrèges is finding a happier home in the U.S. Boutiques carrying Courreges frocks at prices ranging from $200 to $500 have opened to sensational applause at Sakowitz Bros, in Houston and Bonwit Teller in New York. Bonwit's peddled 150 outfits the first day, leading Andre to confirm that he will spend six months a year in the U.S. "The American way of thinking," he noted, "corresponds...
...since grown to eight stores). "We had far-out things of our own," says Hanson, "so we had a ready-made clientele for Rudi's stuff, and we pushed him." The three-way association worked profitably for seven years. In 1959, Gernreich and Bass separated. Four years later, with Bonwit Teller anxious to carry Gernreich's clothes and Hanson determined to have him exclusively or not at all, they too broke. "Rudi is a supreme egotist," says Bass, who now runs gas stations. Echoes Hanson: "He's a publicity hound...
...Bonwit Teller. "I'll tell you how they feel," said one Washington boot buyer. "They feel hot." Yet, so much have boots become this year's look that they are sweeping even balmy Southern California. "I didn't think women would take to them because of the climate here," said I. Magnin Vice President Russell Carpenter, "but we can hardly keep them in stock." And when Gloria Swanson stalked onstage in Los Angeles recently in a tattersall minisuit and shiny black hip boots, the whole audience instantly erupted with shouts of "Brava...