Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hitherto associated with high-price high fashion. Last April the New York Drama Critics presented him with their annual award for his costumes for Richard Rodgers' No Strings. This week the Coty American Fashion Critics (75 top fashion editors) gave him their Winnie award (like an Oscar, only chic) for his fall collection...
...annual Undergarment Market Week, their order books reflected little interest in the flat look. In scores of Manhattan showrooms, they had gravely inspected parades of full-breasted models wearing bras to make the mostest of the leastest, rather than vice versa. Said one buyer: "It may be chic in New York to be flat-chested, but the rest of American women still have bosoms and aren't really interested in looking like they...
...fears that the father of his German-born wife Pupe (Romy Schneider) will cut him off without funds. As husband and wife debate their dilemma and their relationship, the camera feels its way like a sybarite over the textures of the setting and the people. The props are excruciatingly chic, ranging from Aubusson tapestries and Canaletto paintings to Actress Schneider's Coco Chanel clothes. At one point, Pupe manages to wriggle out of these clothes with one hand while telephoning with the other in what is surely one of the more provocative stripteases to be recorded on film...
...most demanding criterion of successful first-ladyship: each, in her way, embodies her country's ideal of womanhood. They are fond of outdoor life; they swim, ride horseback, play tennis or golf. They are enthusiastic and effective sponsors of charitable and cultural causes. Virtually without exception, they are chic, vivacious, quick-witted and warm. Above all, they are immense political and social assets to their husbands. Watching their wives at the center of attention during a recent Washington banquet, John Kennedy quipped to the Shah of Iran: "We might as well have both stayed at home...
...preferential trade agreements that Paris renews year after year. France hands out $50 million in annual subsidies and other aid to help keep the little republic solvent-and pro-French. But Houphouet-Boigny needs little wooing, for he has been in love with France for years. He and his chic. Dior-dressed wife, Marie-Therese, 31, still keep a Paris apartment for holidays...