Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English-Speaking Union luncheon was accompanied by a fashion show of English styles on sale at I. Magnin & Co., and indeed, Margaret's whole trip-together with her top-secret wardrobe-is meant, among other things, to boost Britain's $10 million-a-year fashion trade with the U.S. For the luncheon, Margaret wore a silver-and-white brocade dress with matching coat, a mink hat and a spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated...
...strong sunlight that bathes Italy, the Renaissance masters reveled in huge walls of spectrum-splattered fresco. In darker Northern Europe, the Renaissance first came in the more compact fashion of the graphic arts, in which line dominates color. And no one in the Renaissance drew a finer line than Albrecht Dürer (see color...
...floor of St. Louis' Famous-Barr store, the chain's flagship. Aware that the May Co. ten years ago showed signs of a slowdown under a 22-man board that included 11 members over 65, May continually recruits younger executives, schools them in the company's "fashion image." The curriculum is intended to teach them taste in merchandising in the same sense that May applies it to art collecting. May's aim is to make his stores leading arbiters of good taste in all twelve cities where they are clustered...
...Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun (see THEATER), pseudo-savvy first-nighters did not point him out with a knowing air. He is, after all, no more than the man on the aisle for Women's Wear Daily, trade paper to the women's fashion industry. As such, he is an oft-forgotten member of that mystically powerful group, the drama critics of New York's daily papers. But in any ranking, Gottfried belongs with the best...
...Seventh Avenue community served by Gottfried and Women's Wear makes up an important swatch of every theater audience; garment manufacturers are traditional theatergoers as well as busy entertainers of out-of-town buyers. And in the smart set that reads the paper for more than its fashion reports (among them: Pat Lawford, Rosalind Russell and Mrs. William Paley), the critic's reputation has spread cross-country...