Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think it would be a splendid gesture to suggest to the member nations signing the North Atlantic Treaty that they be allowed to liquidate their war debts in similar fashion. These funds could thus become great pools of mutual friendship and good will, helping the generation about to cope with world problems to work harmoniously and understandingly together...
When the Sept. 1 issue of Vogue (circ. 345,358) went on sale last week, Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat, with photographs and sketches of dresses by such big names as Dior, Fath and Paquin. What horrified Editor Snow was not the new geometric look, but the fact that it was in Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that...
...syndicate was even more annoyed and upset than Harper's Bazaar. It accused Vogue of breaking by three weeks a "gentlemen's agreement" on the fashion release date, indignantly described the action as "a moral abuse of confidence." What worried the French designers was the prospective loss of thousands of dollars' worth of business: they were afraid that U.S. designers would flood the U.S. market with copies before their originals could make the boat. At week's end, the syndicate had reportedly decided on a stern punishment: banning Editor Jessica Daves of the American edition...
Fleur's Flair, which will be shown this week in a limited edition to 5,000 potential advertisers and subscribers, looks like a fancy bouillabaisse of Vogue, Town & Country, Holiday, etc. By covering "fashion, art, literature, travel, decor, theater and entertainment," Editor Cowles expects to lure enough readers to guarantee advertisers a circulation of 200,000 (at 50? a copy) at the start...
...Mendelssohns' silver wedding anniversary, and their 20-year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though...