Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fairchild prodded reporters to ferret out fashion news ahead of competitors; he needled designers and manufacturers into giving him exclusives, and he insisted on getting the material for fashion sketches earlier than anyone else. Women's Wear has come to pride itself on scoops, from revealing Jackie Kennedy's Paris buying sprees during the 1960 election campaign to printing the first sketch of Luci Johnson's wedding dress -an act that caused the paper's reporters to be banned from the wedding...
Fairchild, now 40, has varied the once lackluster trade journal with sometimes effusive, sometimes cutting personality sketches of socially prominent people. The result has been a good deal of creative, if sometimes spurious, gossip. Fairchild has thus been a large factor in fusing the fashion world with the jet set. Women's Wear also runs pungent theater reviews by Martin Gottfried and hippie book reviews by Peter Prescott, whose father Orville reviews more squarely for the New York Times. Circulation has risen in the past six years by 30%, to 65,000. "Fairchild is responsible for reaching a totally...
Banished Offenders. Because of its growing influence, Women's Wear has had a noticeable effect on the fashion business. Manufacturers are quick to adopt such Fairchild slogans as "Real-girl" and "Sportive," "Young Arrogant" and "Cool Chic." "When they started bringing out 'sportive girdles,' I couldn't believe it," says Fairchild. But the Women's Wear role of self-appointed arbiter of fashion is often resented. "I dispute their right to judge fashion before it happens," says Designer Pauline Trigere, "and they do it all the time...
Oddly enough, for a man immersed in the fashion world, Fairchild tries to have as little to do with it as possible. Calling himself a square, he shuns the parties his paper enthusiastically covers and spends evenings at home with his wife Jill and their four children. In his spare time, he has written a recently published novel, The Moonflower Couple, which dwells a lot on clothes while disdaining the fashionable people who wear them. His main ambition is to reach more readers. He takes satisfaction in the fact that twelve large U.S. dailies syndicate material from Women...
...much has changed. True, the fashion is Bermuda shorts instead of bloomers and Tijuana Taxi instead of Yes, We Have No Bananas. But otherwise the concerts are like snapshots out of an old family album, with folding chairs and blankets on the grass; piccolos and glockenspiels, vanilla uniforms with sundae braid and dangling whistles; waltzes and marches and "special symphonic versions" of Lady of Spain and Ethelbert Nevin's Rosary...