Word: chanel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skirt. Courreges had a model roar up to the footlights in a minicar with a Plexiglas dome, and presented another wearing pingpong balls pasted on her oversized sunglasses. Cecil Beaton sketched. Lauren Bacall applauded. Katharine Hepburn hid out from photographers. Coco Chanel curled up on the salon stairway while her collection was shown and coolly surveyed the crush below. But then Chanel has been around long enough to know that nothing very extraordinary was going on. Nothing but the Paris fall fashion showings-and the first glimpse of the season's changes...
...seat; no more calculated dropping of the $190 handbag, the better to reveal the Hermes plaque buried within. No longer the need to base chic upon a series of subtle clues-the interlocking bridle bit that makes the shoe a Gucci, the braid and chain that identify a Chanel suit. (Besides, these are easily copied, sold at half the price, and worn by absolutely anyone.) These days, if she cares enough to buy the very best, it's plainly written all over...
Fashion's grande dame, Coco Chanel, 85, held her annual showing-and it was mostly variations on her famed tweeds and pleated skirts-all of which still goes with the ladies of fashion...
...SECRET OF MICHELANGELO: EVERY MAN'S DREAM (ABC, 9:50-10:30 p.m.). Christopher Plummer and Zoe Caldwell narrate a documentary on Michelangelo's Sistine Chanel frescoes. Produced and directed by Milton Fruchtman...
...native dishes. A handyman rakes the leaves. Madame Binh managed a couple of shopping tours and purchased a $70 full-length coat and a $40 car coat as protection against the Paris winter. She also bought a pair of gloves, two Vietnamese tunics-and some perfume detected to be Chanel...