Word: faberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priceless epidermis. Commercially, Grant was a natural. The last of the great matinee idols, he symbolized male impeccability and the kind of ageless elegance everyone dreams of attaining. But Gary wasn't having any-until last week, when he agreed to join the board of directors of Rayette-Fabergé. Grant, who will serve as a product and corporate consultant, jumped into the fragrant fray because he sees cosmetics as a means of unifying the sexes. Says Gary: "Why should they try to separate us so? We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more...
...Another admirer of the spectacle was retired perfume manufacturer (Fabergé) Samuel Rubin, whose New York-based Samuel Rubin Foundation last week gave the Spoleto festival a gift...
...house. Merchandisers tell the tale of one buyer whose pre-Christmas inventory totaled six toasters; the week after New Year's it had swelled to twelve. One New York City housewife has raised the technique to a high art. Each year her husband receives a gift box of Fabergé perfumes from the manufacturer. The lady returns it, bottle by bottle, to all the stores where she has charge accounts, thus accumulating $75 worth of credits...
...puffing vim into breakfast food on the fronts of cereal boxes. Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co. of Fort Worth advertises its campus slacks by picturing them worn by a tiger, and another manufacturer of slacks, Thomson Co. of New York, shows a tiger skin with a girl's head. Fabergé has added a "Tigress" nail polish and lipstick to its "Tigress" perfume, which is advertised with a tiger-stripe background...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. Most of its galleries are closed for air-conditioning installation, so the Met is playing it cool with a long-term exhibition of Fabergé bric-a-brac. The jeweled Easter eggs, precious parasol handles and assorted semiprecious whatnots would look more at home in Tiffany's down the street. Also on view: the Met's permanent collection of European and U.S. paintings...