Word: chanel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the airlines, NBNA Chairman Sidney Friedman has brought to banking what he calls "the stewardess philosophy." Each day his 570 female tellers swish behind their counters in one of their bank-provided "career coordinated ensembles"-a couple of dresses (navy-blue and light-blue), a sheath with a Chanel-type jacket and several ascots. Says NBNA's blonde Judy Thornton, who goes by the title of director of personnel development: "A girl can change her look as often as she pleases and still remain part of the overall unified look within the bank." Modish but by no means...
...attitude is free and defiant. "I don't give a damn any longer what people think," declares Manhattan Career Girl Pam Zauderer, 23. Not exactly a novel or revolutionary notion. Still, she was raised in Chanel suits picked out by her mother, and she now goes dining and dancing in pants-shaggy fur ones for the gaucho look at a party given by Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, fringed satin ones for the Indian look at a Four Seasons reception for Yves Saint Laurent. Post-Deb Cathy Macauley, 21, shows up in Manhattan for the superformal opening of the Metropolitan...
From opening-night limousines emerged more of the same. "Of course it's a Saint Laurent," said Lauren Bacall, displaying her black jersey jump suit. "When it's pants, it's Yves's." Saint Laurent's newest companion and inspiration, former Chanel Model Betty Catroux, a tall, lithe specter of a woman, arrived in a black satin, sequined jump suit, open to below the rib cage. And when Yves himself shyly walked in, sporting an outsize tie, paisley shirt and multiple chains worn hip-hugger style, the scene was pandemonium...
COCO, with book by Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady), music by Andre Previn, the Hollywood tunesmith. Costumes and sets by Cecil Beaton. Starring Katharine Hepburn. Couturière Coco Chanel and the Beautiful People...
...fact, chains have been unobtrusively hanging around for years. Chanel, for instance, has long fashioned rope necklaces out of tiny links, which she also uses stitched to the inside hem of suit jackets to add weight. Today's big chain reaction began in 1966, when Yves St. Laurent designed a belt made out of bold brass circles that quickly became a boutique bestseller. Now St. Laurent's latest belts are twice as wide, and there is hardly a jewelry designer who is not now clanking out chains...