Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There isn't much of her to look at (31-22-32 and 90 Ibs.). Even so, it seemed as if every mod in Manhattan had turned up at Fashion Photographer Bert Stern's studio to see Lesley Hornby, 17, the cockney wraith more accurately known as Twiggy. Stern threw a welcoming blast for Twiggy when she arrived in the U.S. with plans to expand her minifashion career by peddling some $1,000,000 worth of her clothes in department stores across the nation and picking up an occasional $120 per hour as a model. At a loss...
...everything works at once: not everything Thurber did, not everything director Robert V. Edgar does. "The Night the Bed Fell," for example, is a wonderful short story, a classic, but too much a narration to succeed on stage. "Gentlemen Shoppers," a happy drunken burlesque of modern fashion salons, should play well, but some sloppy acting by John R. Munger, Christopher Hart and Tom Popovich make it a bit tedious...
...Bravo!" cried a reckless woman after the first movement. To this, others in the audience responded in divided fashion: half boos, half hisses. A few avant-gardists countered with applause. More boos. "Bravo!" insisted the woman...
...Konrad Adenauer have had to wait until 10 p.m. for private tours. French newspapers and magazines are filled with articles on "The Short and Pathetic Life of a Persecuted Monarch" and "Was King Tut Really a Woman?" L'Express depicted De Gaulle as a Pharaoh, and even fashion has been afflicted. Two top hairdressers, Alexandre and Carita, have created Egyptian coiffures and appropriate makeup-blue or black lines outlining lips and nostrils, plus eyeliner extending halfway round to a lady's ears...
...flat heels in Grand Hotel but still swayed high above John Barrymore, whose pressagent insisted that he stood 5 ft. 10.) For her height Vanessa is slender: her bust is small, her legs long and elegant; and she moves with the grace of a Watusi dancer?or a high-fashion model. Her lips are thin and subtle, her nose fine, her eyes a cool matte blue. There is something royal in her bearing and at the same time something girlish. The effect is delightfully incongruous. Says Peter Ustinov: "She's a mixture of Harper's bizarre and church bazaar...