Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father, a hosiery executive, died when Rudi was eight. He detested school because of its "rigid militaristic atmosphere." His sanctuary was the dress shop run by one of his aunts. He became so enthralled with the world of dress design that plans were made to send him to Paris to become an apprentice in a major couture house. But Hitler's armies were threatening Europe, and instead of going to Paris, Rudi's mother, who died two years ago, fled with her only child to America just before the Anschluss in 1938. Gernreich...
Crazy Sketches. By his own confession, Gernreich was never a great dancer. But being with the company gave him the chance to design costumes, the first real clothes that he had ever created. He also picked up a job designing fabrics. To dramatize them, he had them photographed draped around live models. People who saw the ads wrote to suggest that Gernreich try designing clothes, and so in 1949 he produced his first "experimental collection." A number of Los Angeles stores, including I. Magnin, wanted to order them, but, rues Rudi, "I had no way of producing them...
...grant to Harvard will endow fives new chairs in six possible area of the University: the Design School, the School of Education, the Law School, the Department of Social Relations, the Department of Economics, and the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. The first five areas are likely to receive the urban chairs, President Pusey said yesterday at a press conference with M.I.T. president Howard W. Johnson and Daniel P. Moynihan, Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...Harlem Cultural Festival, sponsored by the Parks Department, was a similar community development program. In a series of seven different shows, the Festival brought together entertainers who dramatized the cultural heritage of Harlem. An evenings of soul music, one of sports, another of clothes design and modeling -- to make the people of Harlem aware of their own sharp identity within this blurred and sprawling context of urban life...
Sert said the Design School faculty recommendation had been presented to the Corporation. "I don't know the grounds on which the Corporation decided; it's their business" Sert commented. A spokesman for the Corporation refused to reveal yesterday why they made their decision...