Word: chanelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every room and ventured outside only for furtive walks along a superb white beach. Village girls were brought to the palace and, recalls a visitor, "there was usually a little love in the afternoon with one or another favorite." One room was stocked with hundreds of bottles of Chanel No. 5 along with toys, Swiss watches and a collection of mail order catalogues...
...Ivory Coast, from the arid desert of Mauritania to the deep green rain forests of Cameroun, from the sight of heavily clad Berber women in the Sahara to bare-breasted girls in Yacunde. Scrupulously impartial, he and his entourage of 160-including Wife Claude, cool in summer outfits by Chanel, Cardin and Lanvin despite the oppressive heat-were scheduled to remain about 48 hours in each capital...
Cool Reception. In 1938, with the war coming on and the Italian designer Schiaparelli moving in on the fashion front. Chanel retired. For the next 15 years, she shuttled between Vichy and Switzerland, returning to reopen her Paris salon in 1954 only to boost lagging perfume sales. Her jersey-and-tweed suits won a cool reception from the press, but soon nearly every knockoff house was competing to turn out the closest replica. Chanel had long since refused to join the cabal of Paris designers who tried to prevent style piracy. "I am not an artist," she insisted. "I want...
...Mademoiselle Chanel has reigned over fashion," mused Jean Cocteau some time ago, "it is not because she cut women's hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because-outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship-there is nothin» in her era that she has missed...
Died. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 87, for much of the 20th century la plus grande dame of high fashion (see MODERN LIVING...