Word: chanel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Egged on by Paris' Coco Chanel, who calls the miniskirt "the most absurd weapon woman has ever employed to seduce men," two of France's biggest ready-to-wear designers, Daniel Hechter and Jacques Delahaye, are now showing "maxi jupes" for autumn that reach all the way down to the midcalf. Hechter and Delahaye, who sell to leading department stores the world over, including Bonwit Teller and Neiman Marcus, are receiving orders for them by the thousands. In the U.S., three fast-rising young ready-to-wear designers-Coty Award Winner Dominic of Matty Talmack, plus Chester Weinberg...
...Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...
Died. Jacques Heim, 67, Parisian high-fashion designer whose House of Heim was considerably less radical than the houses of Dior, Chanel, and Lanvin, trending to very elegant, quietly simple styles (among its clients: Mme. de Gaulle, Queen Fabiola, Mamie Eisenhower), yet could hardly be called stodgy, seeing as how it was the birthplace in 1946 of a teeny-weeny swimsuit called the A tome, which Heim designed for Riviera beaches and which other designers picked up and renamed the bikini; of a cerebral embolism; in Neuilly, France...
Helen stoop up stiffly and folded the paper into her diary. She mustn't keep poor Ruth waiting any longer. She brushed her hair and sprayed on Chanel...
Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 48, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot) now finishing his libretto for a musical based on the life of Haute Couturiere Coco Chanel; and Karen Gundersen, 31, a Newsweek reporter he met during an interview last year; he for the fifth time (others: Socialite Ruth Boyd, Actresses Marion Bell and Nancy Olson, and Lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo), she for the first; in Santa Barbara, Calif...