Word: cassini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Countess Marguerite Cassini, 79, mother of Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and New York Society Columnist Igor ("Chol-ly Knickerbocker") Cassini, a spirited Russian matriarch who was the belle of Washington during the McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt Administrations, when her father was Czarist Ambassador to the U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York...
...your inane statement that the U.S. has a "queen": may I remind your obsequious reporter that the real "queens" of the U.S. are all the average gals who manage to look damned attractive without benefit of limitless funds, makeup artists, personal hairdressers, jewels, Cassini and/or Givenchy...
Fabrics, more than color, are the big highlights. Leather, knit and tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry...
...Parnis and Hannah Troy are two of many showing soft brown, smoky green, and blue (robin's egg, peacock) for daytime. Arthur Jablow's collection by David Kidd includes suits in browns from palest beige through butterscotch to ebony, while Jane Derby combines navy and green. Though Cassini uses bright colors for day, the rest of the clock is handed over to browns, greens, navy and black...
...virtue of her own beauty and taste, is also First Lady of Fashion. Despite her desires, stylists study her every purchase. While she was off in Canada, fashion circles bubbled with rumors that Jackie was smuggling Paris creations into the White House, thus snubbing her official designer, Oleg Cassini, who in turn spanked Jackie by giving his sister-in-law a gown copied from one he had created for the First Lady. When Jackie admitted that she had indeed bought a Givenchy dress, U.S. couturiers paled, saw visions of her shopping at foreign salons while in Paris this week, warned...