Word: chanel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solon, an unlamented mixologist at the old Waldorf bar, diluted the basic gin and vermouth with orange juice and called it a Bronx-a cheerless drink now well on its way to oblivion. Others have polluted the martini with grenadine, mint sprigs, anchovies, crystallized violets, sherry, absinthe, and even Chanel No. 5. They are still at it: last week Washingtonians were drinking something called a "dillytini"-a martini with a two-inch green bean, pickled in dill vinegar-which tastes, according to one experimenter, "like crabgrass...
...Ricci. The loudest cheer was not for Dior, Chanel, Manguin and other big names but for an almost unknown couturier. His collection of neat suits and petite bell-skirted dresses had the buyers raving over "the exciting new house"-and buying. The house is Nina Ricci (pronounced reachy), in business for 27 years in a modest establishment far from the fashionable couture neighborhood. The designer is little (5 ft. 6 in., 154 lbs.), blond Jules-François Crahay, 41, who "merely did what I've been doing all my life." The Paris-trained son of a Belgian dressmaker...
...provoke a passionate male onslaught before the evening has even begun. On their own, many U.S. women seem to think that perfume is out of step with the clean, sporty American look. Though makers sold $110 million worth of fragrance products last year (top three perfumes: Arpege, Chanel No. 5, My-Sin), the perfume market has barely expanded in the last ten years. "Perfume is a woman's secret weapon," says Jean Desprèes, executive vice president of Coty...
...Dallas, French Fashion Designer Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 74, received the Neiman-Marcus Golden Anniversary Award as "the great innovator who emancipated the feminine silhouette," transforming it from undulating, feminine curves to flapper angularities with emphasis on comfort, jersey, pearls, the triangular scarf, the pleated skirt, shawls, colored gloves for night parties, and cloche hats for that come-hither look -and Chanel No. 5 for that come-hither smell. In a baffling statement of first principles, the woman who banished the waistline, eliminated hips and deflated the bosom, announced: "The most important thing is to look feminine." Confusing the issue still...
...keyed arrangements that have made Drummer Hamilton an important figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...