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Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is a rugged road for fashion retailers. Those that have failed in the past decade include Best & Co., Arnold Constable and Peck & Peck. Now one of the street's very biggest names will disappear: Bonwit Teller. For most of its 80-year history, Bonwit's specialized in dressing well-heeled women in genteel elegance. But the store moved from mere affluence to a position of real fashion influence in the 1960s, when its sharp-tongued president, Mildred Custin, decided that Bonwit's should take the lead in promoting the designs of such...
Instead the pair almost instantly fall into the kind of gloomy wrangling it takes most married people years to discover. The problem is that Marcie is even richer than Oliver but shares none of his guilt over that enviable condition. Her pleasure in being one of the Bonwits of Bonwit Teller makes Oliver more and more sullen. The upshot is that he leaves her to join his own family's business, a New England mill whose workers, he thinks, need his liberal-minded ministrations. The picture ends with a voice-over announcing his intention to make his good works...
...some $135 million this year, and developed a merchandising program called Retail Partners, under which Revlon designs displays and provides promotional materials for stores to encourage them to put on splashy shows. One for Bordeaux lipstick, nail polish and other cosmetics took a whole floor of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller; Revlon supplied books on wine and even old wine barrels to show off. When a Revlon product is a hit, Bergerac quickly follows it with others under the same name. Charlie, for example, has spread since 1974 from a fragrance to a line of cosmetics and soap...
Some companies still consider a refusal to transfer to be an act of disloyalty that can ruin a promising career. But most firms are becoming more understanding, and some are willing to make special arrangements. After Jo Anne Kaiser, 28, a former Bonwit Teller buyer, refused to leave her new home in Orlando, Fla., for a headquarters job in Miami, Burdine's, a big department-store chain, agreed to a setup by which she spends only two days a week in Miami and goes to New York on buying trips every six weeks. Says Celanese's Wall...
...Wertmuller's feminist treatise The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain. This time the title is a cinch-Oliver's Story. A continuation of Love Story, it also stars Ryan O'Neal, who falls in love with Marcie Bonwit, an executive in her family's department store. Alas, Oliver and Marcie do not wind up together. "She's a woman who works, who wants a relationship, but not at the expense of her life," says Bergen, 32, adding sweetly, "like most...