Word: chanel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost some of its sheen last week at the news that the House of Balenciaga is closing. Some said he is simply bored; others claimed that his disdain for "commercialism" and contemporary styles had caused business to decline. Whatever the reason, it does not diminish the loss. Said Coco Chanel: "The others are drafts men or copyists, or else they are inspired people, even geniuses, but Balenciaga alone is a couturier. He is the only one who can design, cut, put together and sew a gown entirely alone...
...musical-possibly for the same reason that no composer has yet written a concerto for duck call. Now the oversight is to be remedied in sensational fashion. Kate has been signed for the title role in next season's Coco, an oversized Broadway musical about Couturiere Coco Chanel that will have a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Andre Previn, and a tab of $500,000. The musical, gestating since 1959, was supposed to star Rosalind Russell, but she got entangled in movie commitments...
Like all revolutions, it began, as Coco Chanel acidly observes, "in the streets." Once, styles trickled down from a handful of wealthy and conservative women whose clothes were made to order by entrenched French designers. Being chic was the objective, but always in a dignified and ladylike way. Now youth is in command, and it is the college and young career girls who make the mode. What Actress Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the Ten Best-Dressed Women combined...
...Laurent likes to look back to the 1920s and 1930s. Last year it was Marlene Dietrich suits and the gangster look; this year, in what was billed as homage to 84-year-old Coco Chanel, he turned out a whole series of lowwaisted, high-collared, frilly-skirted dresses that brought cheers and bravos from the spectators...
Miniskirts may be popular with the women who wear them, but in the past few months they have been denounced by ex-President Eisenhower, condemned by Designer Coco Chanel, blasted by King Hassan II of Morocco, banned in Tunisia, prohibited in Rumania, and ridiculed at Ascot. Nowhere, however, has the reaction been as cutting as in the populous copper-belt towns of northern Zambia. There, thigh-high skirts have become the objects of a fanatic "culture campaign" directed by local members of President Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P...