Word: cassini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spokesman had sternly announced that "Mrs. Kennedy does not regard this trip as a fashion show." But the 70-odd correspondents with her paid no heed. Whether she wore a Cassini evening dress or a Tassell gown-all duly recorded by reporters-Jackie shone even among the colorful saris of the Indian women around her. When she slipped off her shoes and put on violet velvet slippers to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears...
...shopping trail wasn't too hard to follow since a leak from the White House last week mentioned the Park Avenue shop, Chez Ninon, and California Designer Gus Tassell as supplying the clothes, along with the official Cassini...
...mostly newsmen and newshens -down the Ganges awaited sailing orders. And the Taj Mahal, which she will view both by daylight and moonlight-well, the Taj Mahal, postponement or no, always lives up to its advance billing. For her part, the First Lady was packing trunkloads of clothes by Cassini, Chez Ninon and Tassell. She had got shots for cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, typhoid and tetanus-without getting sick. She had conscientiously boned up on the customs of India and Pakistan. Only one question remained: Would her health...
...House bash in her honor, the President yielded to Guest Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., who launched into a rambling salute to her husband, Prince Stanislaus ("Stash") Radziwill-who just happened to be home in London at the time. Locking his gaze on Jacqueline Kennedy's fashion mentor, Oleg Cassini, Roosevelt droned relentlessly on, undeterred by the President's prompting interjections (". . . Stash, wherever you are"), committing a pas almost anyone might have fauxed (see cuts...
...Peppermint Lounge and its Twist might well have remained just another flesh spa for the midtown beatnik crowd had it not been for the sharp eye of New York Journal-American Society Editor "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini), who somehow spotted a few members of the smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose...