Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free-Thinking Communists. The mayor himself is ensconced next door, in what used to be Pope Clement VII's study. For the summer, Fabiani has abandoned the prevalent Communist fashion (dark double-breasted suit) for an open sport shirt and a light linen jacket. Though only 35, he is a veteran Communist. Nine years in Fascist jails have shrunk his face, left his eyes deepset in sallow sockets. His line is conciliation: "If we Communists were in power in Italy today, we would not destroy private property. Private property has its function to fulfill in Italy for years & years...
...time it takes to adjust a girdle, the nation's advertising writers last week joined the fashion revolution begun by couturiers and fashion magazines (TIME, Aug. 18). A year ago Manhattan's Lord & Taylor had lyrically praised suits with "new bulky tops" and short-skirted hip-hugging dresses that had matured into "a faultless anatomy of design." Last week L. & T.'s ads cried: "Remember those shoulders out to-here, those hazardous days of the short tight skirts...
...leaders in a hotly competitive field, both magazines cover fashions at their source, report on what they like, and often like the same things. Both are read as much for their ads as for anything else. Both employ squads of bright, elegantly turned-out young fashion scouts, and both try to vary their pictures of blankly beautiful models with portraits of society women. Both are fawned over by publicity-hungry manufacturers. But they resent being taken for twins. Their differences are largely those that set apart two strong-minded women of ruthless, sometimes reckless taste...
...chartreuse-and-beige office, she is a hard-to-please autocrat ("my wastebasket is my strongest ally"). Her philosophy is frankly snobbish: "We are reflecting the way of life of people with wealth and taste and social position." To help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts man is puttery Frank Crowninshield, 75, famed editor of famed Vanity Fair until Vogue gobbled it. Mrs. Chase and courtly Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, successor to Nast, have admitted articles...
...gentler boss than the rival who trained her, Carmel Snow shrewdly feeds her staffers' egos. She is proud to see her alumni (Models Anita Colby and Lauren Bacall, Fashion Editor Louise Macy Hopkins) get on in the world...