Word: ellin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin poured out his grief in his first real ballad, When I Lost You. The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone. His courtship of heiress Ellin Mackay, granddaughter of an owner of the Comstock Lode, was breathlessly followed in the press, and their secret marriage in 1926, over her father's vigorous objections, made headlines. It also made standards like Always...
Private labels have helped department stores create a more distinctive identity. Says Ellin Saltzman, fashion director for Saks Fifth Avenue: "It grew out of a need for individuality among stores. For years we have all been selling the same designers in the same malls to the same customers." Moreover, designer goods have become prone to discounting wars. Says Marshall Beere, director of women's-apparel merchandising for J.C. Penney: "If the competition runs a sale, you have to respond. With your own labels, you don't have to do that...
...average price of $4,100, the clothes are selling briskly. Bergdorf Goodman says it took $330,000 worth of orders in two days. Saks Fifth Avenue bought 27 styles, or most of the line. "I'm not sure I've ever seen quite as much of a phenomenon," says Ellin Saltzman, the store's fashion director, who remembers the '60s frenzies over Rudi Gernreich and Andre Courreges. Of such skyrocketing designers, she says, "I think it's scary for them...
...Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion shows are done for press value first and foremost, not for the buyers. I can't get word out there to all our customers that Bill Blass, for example, has all these great black dresses...
Which is not to deprecate the individual performances, which are generally quite good. Ellin Merhbach is wonderful as Laurie, the lewd bank-teller; she's titillated by the vortex, but she's got enough common sense to avoid its bottom. Michael Escamilla's lazy affected drawl is the perfect voice of doom, and he fills the part of Charlie completely. Maggie Topkis, for the most part, pulls off her characterization of Carol as the tough but sensitive New York Jewish earth mother. Alex Pearson is adequate as the seductive con on the make; if he has some problems, it might...